Names of places and highland attire

[macwilkin]

Usage determines spelling.

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

Argyle = Jacket and hose
Argyll = the town

Not necessarily. My great-great grandmother's tombstone in Iowa lists her birth place as "Argyle, Scotland".

Regards,

Todd

[McClef]

It is spelt that way when it refers to Plymouth Argyle Football Club

Wiki states it is an archaic form - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyll .

[macwilkin]

It is spelt that way when it refers to Plymouth Argyle Football Club

Wiki states it is an archaic form - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyll .

Hence, my point -- she was born in the mid 19th century after all.

T.

[Abax]

Not necessarily. My great-great grandmother's tombstone in Iowa lists her birth place as "Argyle, Scotland".

Stone masons (carvers), however, have been historically poor at spelling.

Abax

[macwilkin]

Stone masons (carvers), however, have been historically poor at spelling.

Abax

That's speculation, of course. Many people in the 19th century were poor spellers.

T.

[James MacMillan]

That's speculation, of course. Many people in the 19th century were poor spellers.

T.

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[gilmore]

That's speculation, of course. Many people in the 19th century were poor spellers.

T.

It's not that they were poor spellers, it was that there was no correct way to spell things until Noah Webster and the other dictionarists in the early 1800's. Until then, everyone spelled words as they sounded to them.

[macwilkin]

It's not that they were poor spellers, it was that there was no correct way to spell things until Noah Webster and the other dictionarists in the early 1800's. Until then, everyone spelled words as they sounded to them.

Noah Webster, though, wrote his dictionary to create a distinctly American language which was distinctive from "British English" as well as uniform across the nation.

That's why Americans spell "honour", "colour", etc. incorrectly.

T.