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ellenavon
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Please could you help again?.....

Post by ellenavon » Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:40 pm

Hi All

Can anyone help me further on my previous thread, Big Brickwall 2.

I'm sure everyone is sick of it (as am I sometimes!), but I have made progress. My last post on the thread explains.

I now have so much information on different families of Glens that I would appreciate some help in extricating myself from my current boorough!

Davie - I'm sure you'll let me know the proper spelling of one of my favourite words from home, which I use a lot but have never seen written down!

Regards

Ellen.
Researching: Grant; MacIntosh; Wright; Parley; Souter; Jaffray; Sangster; all North East & Speyside and Sutherland, Glasgow then Sutherland County; Buchanan, Stirlingshire; Lamond, North East; Stronach, Morayshire to name but a few!
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Post by Moonwatcher » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:53 pm

Ellen,

I think you mean 'Boo-rach'. The 'ch' is pronounced as in the scottish pronunciation of Loch. I believe it to be a Gaelic word - I certainly hadn't heard it until I came to live in the Highlands.

Bob.
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Post by Moonwatcher » Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:01 pm

I forgot to mention... As far as I know it means - things in a right mess or a 'guddle'. (Guddle being it's Glesca equivalent).

PS: Ye kin also guddle furr fish!

Bob.
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Post by ellenavon » Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:13 pm

Bob, I think I'd be better guddling for fish than for Glens at the moment!

Ellen.
Researching: Grant; MacIntosh; Wright; Parley; Souter; Jaffray; Sangster; all North East & Speyside and Sutherland, Glasgow then Sutherland County; Buchanan, Stirlingshire; Lamond, North East; Stronach, Morayshire to name but a few!
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Re: Please could you help again??

Post by DavidWW » Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:24 pm

ellenavon wrote:Davie - I'm sure you'll let me know the proper spelling of one of my favourite words from home, which I use a lot but have never seen written down!

....much snipped .........

Ellen.
Ellen

You've lost me !!!

Davie
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ellenavon
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Post by ellenavon » Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:37 pm

Boorough? - or as Bob says bourach.

In a guddle/mess/shambles/clutter!

Ellen.
Researching: Grant; MacIntosh; Wright; Parley; Souter; Jaffray; Sangster; all North East & Speyside and Sutherland, Glasgow then Sutherland County; Buchanan, Stirlingshire; Lamond, North East; Stronach, Morayshire to name but a few!
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Post by AndrewP » Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:50 pm

Nearest I can find in my Gaelic-English dictionary:

buaireas (boour'-as): tumult, an uproar, confusion, disturbance, trouble, ferment

All the best,

Andrew Paterson
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Post by DavidWW » Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:20 pm

Aye weel !!, - that's my new word for today learnt :lol:

When I think about it I can maybe recall hearing its use in Whisky Galore!

Davie
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ellenavon
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Post by ellenavon » Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:47 pm

Must be because I'm a Speysider then - all that Whisky! (which I can not stand by the way, I like a nice glass of port myself!).

Ellen.
Researching: Grant; MacIntosh; Wright; Parley; Souter; Jaffray; Sangster; all North East & Speyside and Sutherland, Glasgow then Sutherland County; Buchanan, Stirlingshire; Lamond, North East; Stronach, Morayshire to name but a few!
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