Another link between Scotland and the “unmentionables” beginning with T and ending with ian’s ?
The name possibly originated as a jocular reference to the Doric dialect of the Ancient Greek language. Greek Dorians lived in Laconia, including Sparta, and other more rural areas, and were alleged by the ancient Greeks to have spoken laconically and in a language thought harsher in tone and more phonetically conservative than the Attic spoken in Athens. Doric Greek was used for some of the verses spoken by the chorus in Greek tragedy.
I rest MY DNA case!
P.S. Check out the Four Marys? Mary Seaton, Mary Livingstone, Mary Beaton, Mary FLEMING!
P.P.S. Told you I was a Teuchter/Peasant!!!!!!
P.P.P.S. I was nearly named Jessie after my paternal grandfather’s sister. A woman I met when I was very young and she was very old :o)
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