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From: Roderick Hay Bain <>
Subject: Re: Fittie
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 21:50:40 +0000

Fit like ?

Na, ye're aye a country chiel at Cooter. The toonie bussie, dis it
cam oot tae Cooter, --or dis oor bussie fae Bunckery an Terfens in the
country supply your lot as weel ? Syne, yer a country moose.

Rodi Bain

In message <>, Gordon
Johnson <> writes
>Rosemary in Aberdeen said:
>>Alec,
>>I call the old fishing village of Aberdeen' Fittie'
>>because that is the original way of it and how it is still pronounced.
>>Some town clerk must have thought it didn't sound 'proper' and called it
>>Footdee. It certainly is at the mouth of the Dee on the North side of the
>>river but that is not the old origin of the name which has had many
>>variations:-Foty,Futty etc etc.
>****** Right enough Rosemary. It appears as "Foty" in an Aberdeen burgh
>court roll of 1317, so it is pretty well established by now!! Footdee is
>really just a modern affectation as you say.
>Gordon, in Aberdeen..... well, in Culter, which I suppose is officially
>within Aberdeen these days. :-(
>
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