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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Mark Dreyer</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Grammar" 2009.06.12 (01) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Hi, Elsie, Ron & Co.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Subject:</b> LL-L "Grammar" </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">As Elsie notes:</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="im">
<div>And in
Pretoria, opposite the UNISA campus, there is a hill called
Muckleneuk.</div>
<div>Â </div>
</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">& as Ron
responded:</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="im">
<div>Muckleneuk seems to be pure
Scots: <i>muckle</i> 'large', <i>neuk</i> 1. 'nook', 2.
'projecting point of land'</div>
<div>Â </div>
</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mark</div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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