LL-L "Etymology" 2009.06.12 (05) [EN]

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From: Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2009.06.12 (01) [EN]

Hi, Elsie, Ron & Co.

*Subject:* LL-L "Grammar"

As Elsie notes:
And in Pretoria, opposite the UNISA campus, there is a hill called
Muckleneuk.

& as Ron responded:
Muckleneuk seems to be pure Scots: *muckle* 'large', *neuk* 1. 'nook', 2.
'projecting point of land'

The namer knew his Scots & the local geography. The Eastrn head of the
southern pass into the central valley of Old Pretoria through
Fonteinedal makes a broad shoulder. Hereon some of the older of the most
recent developments of UNISA's buildings now straddle the same, a big corner
indeed. Well behind it behind it out of line of sight on the brow of the
hill is Klapperkop Fort, built to defend it from invading Khakis out of the
South. Her sister fortification is Schanskop Fort. Neither was ever used. by
the time the British passed it the Republicans had adopted guerilla
strategies. Both forts are now museums. On the other side of the valley
rather smaller, was another such feature named Bailly's Muckleneuk, never
fortified - subsequently suburbified. Scots had a high profile in republican
& pre-British South Africa.

Regards.
Mark

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