Aug 132010
 

Voice looks at some interesting NE place names and offers possible insights to their origins.

Towie: Having the properties of string

Insch: 2.54 schentimetresch

Banff: The sound made when a cardboard boxful of pillows is kicked

Dufftown: The home of Homer Simpson’s tipple of choice

Clatt: The gungy stuff found between your toes

More to follow in next week’s issue of Aberdeen Voice.