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A boy drops an orange, a second boy picks it up. Boy two won't give it bag. Boy one shouts for handers. Boy two gives back orange under duress. Boy one's Big Pals slap boy two round the head for being a thieving wee git. Boy two's pals see this and a riot breaks out.
Thats me paraphrasing a blurb in the John o'groats Courier or similar.
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Trus,
Who was John O'Groats ?
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(This post was last modified: 15-12-2015, 00:53 by Trusevich.)
Jan de Groote was a Dutch trader who settled in Caithness back in the fourteenth or fifteenth century. He operated a ferry to Orkney after the Norse gave the islands back to the Scots.
The Caithness dialect word for stomach - 'boug' - strongly resembles the Dutch equivalent - 'boik'. I've often suspected there's a link through old Jan.
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Cheers, Trus. The property transfer was in 1468.
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