Names of places and highland attire

[gilmore]

An interesting double pluralization comes from brogue, the Gaelic for shoe. The plural in Gaelic is broguen or broguan, but somehow in the American South, especially rural areas, "brogans" has come to mean a pair of heavy work shoes/boots that come up to the ankle.

[James MacMillan]

Well, even though, the thread was hi-jacked, we still managed to get a good discussion going.

If we continue to keep an open mind, and a sense of humor (humour) we can learn things, even into old age.

The points taken with usage is also correct. Common usage changes our dictionaries every day.

You can look at kilt web-sites and see many spellings of the same things.

One black knife has finally been standardized into sgian dubh, but it wasn't that many years ago, that you would see many spellings of that term.

The plural is seen many places as both sgian dubhs and sgians dubh.

I, for one, would like to see sgèanan dubh adopted, but I will be happy with sgians dubh.

[TheKiltedWonder]

Well, even though, the thread was hi-jacked, we still managed to get a good discussion going.

Sorry, about the hijacking. The masked linguist rides again!

You can look at kilt web-sites and see many spellings of the same things.

I've wondered about those numerous spellings. The thread began with the proper place name/clothing spellings, but may of the non-standard spellings are quite prevelant. Argyle seems rather common. Does anyone know the reason for this variance? I mean, I know spellings weren't as standard years ago and there are still differences between British and American spellings. But is one spelling more British? More American? More Scottish?
I dunno, I have a good sense of humor and a lot to learn, so hopefully someone can help.

[McMurdo]

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[Chef]

You can look at kilt web-sites and see many spellings of the same things.

That's probably the Gold Bros. fault.