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Wednesday 2 March 2011

Stuart's Daily Word Spot: Mac

Map of Scottish clansImage via Wikipedia
Mac: noun -  also as Mc- the patronymic prefix in many Scottish & Irish names; someone whose name contains the prefix Mac-; a Scotsman, a familiar form of address to an unknown male; the trade name for a specific type of computer.

'There was some unintended irony in the way MacDonald called every man he met, "Mac", without ever realising it was an oblique reference to his own surname.'

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2 comments:

Julia Munroe Martin said...

Funny! Thanks for the great word spot, Mac!

stuartaken.net said...

I try to amuse, where I can, Julia.