Gullane
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English
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Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Scottish Gaelic gualann (“shoulder”); the pronunciation with /ʌ/ is historically a spelling pronunciation, but is now the usual local pronunciation.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Gullane
- A coastal village in East Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT4882).
References
[edit]- ^ A. J. Aitken (1972) “Gaelic, Scots and Gullane”, in Caroline Macafee, editor, Collected Writings on the Scots Language, published 2015.