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From: Jill McKechnie & John Sarchese <>
Subject: Definition of Mull
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 21:08:21 -0400

In reply to Barbara's question, I believe "Mull" means promontory. My
concise OED agrees with that. So where is the promontory, and who was
looking at it? It could be the long low arm of the Ross, or perhaps the
Burg, or Ben More being viewed from Iona. The scholars of the Abbey would
be the ones writing about it - and that opinion would probably be the
lasting one.
I looked up Mull in my copy of McAlpine's Pronouncing Gaelic Dictionary
(Gaelic-English), and found: Muile (noun, masculine) meaning Isle of
Mull.
Cheers -
Jill M.

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