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4th December 09, 08:31 PM
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It reminds me of when I was a boy. I lived in the Lowlands, near Edinburgh, and none of them could get the idea of my Christian name, Lachlan. They kept saying I had an Irish name which rattled my cage no end. No disrespect to Ireland, but my name has a perfectly good Highland pedigree. All my life people have mis-spelt and mis-pronounced my name, so that nowadays it’s like water off a duck’s back. The most common mis-pronounciation is Locklin and sometimes Lackland but various ones have been used. Funny enough, I had less problem in London with English people than I had in Edinburgh with fellow Scots ! But then again, it’s sometimes said by the rest of Scotland that Edinburgh is more English than Scottish.
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