Name
The suffix 'hall' is an anglicisation. The correct or at least former word is 'haugh', a Scots word roughly meaning the land at the bottom of a river valley. Sauchiehall roughly translates to 'Willow Grove': compare Sausalito, California.
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Famous quotes containing the word name:
“Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore than name. Are they all alike. I think so.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“What is it? a learned man
Could give it a clumsy name.
Let him name it who can,
The beauty would be the same.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)