HalfManHalfTitanium wrote:Is it place names that have the name twice?
Loch Loch, Cove Bay near Aberdeen? Not sure where BH is though...
Tim
Yes, they are all tautological names.. I will give it to you as it has been going on for toooo long! My clumsy attempts to include tautological statements in my replies weren't much help. ("short summary" "at the risk of repeatinmg myself, I will say again" etc. Sgurr got different names for hill but assigned them to different hills rather than the same hill. Glengavel had common root but in fact they are different roots for the same name.
Further info, there are at least 2 Cove Bays (there is one on the Moray Coast), only one Loch Loch ( I gave this as a reply a couple of days ago to the "Name that Loch" thread) but a few BINN HILL or BINNS HILL more being made as people are adding Hill to "The Binn" etc. The one here is juxtaposed with a large landfill site but the name precedes the landfill and is at NO 17134 13819 .
My favourite is
Eas
Fors
Waterfall (Isle of Mull)which is Waterfall Waterfall Waterfall using Gaelic, Norse and English.
Inverarish uses the Gaelic Inbhir(inver) for burn mouth and the Norse term Àrais also for burn mouth.
The one I found on the Watershed is Dod Hill. There is probably a group of avid tautologists ticking these things off (or there were before lockdown). The first tautological name I remember learning was "bunch of bunches" being an incorrect translation from the French grappe (bunch or cluster) de raisin hence the pictures of bunches of grapes.
Phew! over to you Tim