Names of places and highland attire

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Hey, I thought this thread was about place names in Highland wear!

Such as:

Inverness cape
Kilmarnock bonnet
Glengarry bonnet
Argyll hose
Sherrifmuir doublet

These are just a few I noticed were left off the list.

[Dirk Skene]

Hey, I thought this thread was about place names in Highland wear!

It was. It got hijacked ;-)

[James MacMillan]

Through common usage, we will finally come to the "correct" spelling. Somehow we now have a standard spelling of sgian dubh. That wasn't true just a few short years ago.

Usage determines spelling.

It may well develop that we will have things something like this:

Argyle = Jacket and hose
Argyll = the town

As kilting, really isn't in the main stream yet, the linguists haven't paid it much mind. I have three hardback paper dictionaries in my place, and different publishing dates. All have wide variants on spelling as relates to the kilt.

As we wean ourselves away from the paper dictionary and towards the web, (which by usage, is more standardized) our relatively small numbers will be able to exert greater influence.

Look what we did with the box pleated kilt!

[slohairt]

Actually, we've always had a standard spelling of sgian dubh = sgian dubh! The other spellings (skean dhu, etc.) aren't variations, just bad Anglicisations.

[sjrapid]

Hey, I thought this thread was about place names in Highland wear!

Such as:

Inverness cape
Kilmarnock bonnet
Glengarry bonnet
Argyll hose
Sherrifmuir doublet

These are just a few I noticed were left off the list.

Thanks Matt, for dragging this thread back towards to its original subject. I'll follow these up.

Best regards