Scotland as an Addiction, Part 3
Land of Trip-Tongue Whimsy
Here’s five wee Scots places where you can wake up in the morning and have no idea how to pronounce the community’s name.
Auchtermuchty (Fife). Pronunciation: okh-ter-MUKH-tee. 2,042 wee chappies. Known for a royal burgh chartered in 1517. Dr Finlay was filmed here, and you don’t know what that is, but the setup is very much like All Creatures Great and Small. Linked to Jimmy Shand and The Proclaimers. Home of a bowling club.
Clackmannan (Clackmannanshire). Pronunciation: klak-MAN-un. 3,260 wee chappies. Known for the Stone of Mannan and a 1592 tolbooth. Our own Rabbie Burns was "knighted" with Bruce's sword there in 1787.
Tighnabruaich (Argyll). Pronunciation: tye-nuh-BROO-ukh. 550 wee chappies. We’ve stayed in the Tighnabruaich Hotel. The drive up around Loch Ruel is magnificent. Go here for sailing on the Kyles of Bute and join the Tighnabruaich Sailing School.
Drumnadrochit (Highlands). Pronunciation: drum-nuh-DROKH-it. 1,101 wee chappies. Known for the 1933 Drumnadrochit Hotel sighting that launched the modern Nessie legend. Urquhart Castle is nearby. There are threepubs, and one of them regularly entertains the Glenurquhart Shinty Club.
Auchenshuggle (as far east as you can be and still be in Glasgow). Pronunciation: okh-un-SHUG-ul. Known for a terminus on one of Glasgow's last tram routes before 1962, and not much else. The Gaelic is Achadh an t-Seagail, lit. 'the rye field').
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