Re: Scots, scottish, scotch

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Tue May 03 2005 - 18:49:46 CDT

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Peter Kirk wrote:

> Indeed. The original name of each of the people was Angle (famously
> confused with Angel by Pope Gregory the Great)

Pope Gregory wasn't confused: he was making a pun.

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