- Auchenshoogle
Auchenshoogle is a fictional Scottish town, an amalgam of
Dundee andGlasgow , used since the late 1990s as the setting (originally unnamed) of thecomic strips Oor Wullie andThe Broons inThe Sunday Post .The name may be a comic variant on the real
Glasgow districtAuchenshuggle (in Lowland Scots, "shoogle" means to shake or rock, perhaps a pun on "Shuggle" from "Seagal" meaning "Rye " in the original). "Auchen-" or "Auchin-" is a common prefix in Lowland place names coming from theScottish Gaelic "Achadh ..." meaning "Field of the".The term has since become a generic Scottish small-town name, used for humour or as a dummy name in legal discussions and is often claimed to be in
Inverness-shire . It has also been used in the name of Scottishceilidh band "Last Tram to Auchenshoogle".ee also
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Auchenshuggle
*Auchterturra
*Brigadoon References
* [http://www.scottishcastlesassociation.com/newsltr/no2/page17.htm Scottish Castles Association Newsletter, Issue 2]
* [http://www.caledonia.org.uk/land/feudal2.htm The Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000]
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