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John Shields
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From Michael Ansell – 25 July 2020

Thanks Alan

As an aside it is odd how the anglicised spelling -reoch is sometimes pronounced as you describe below in Galloway. Certainly Kirriereoch in the Cree valley is today pronounced Kirrie-òach. I guess this is just ongoing simplification at work.

Michael