How do you pronounce this Scottish place name? Finzean in Aberdeenshire is always the butt of jokes for how it’s pronounced, I mind an old “Aberdeen weather report” saying that it’s mingin in finzean, which is the best pronunciation guide The meaning of the name really has been lost to time, maybe it’s Gaelic, maybe it’s an old saints name, but the fact we can’t be sure tells us that the name is incredibly old You’ll see a lot of Scottish place names, and family names with Z in them. This is act

Buachaille Èite Mòr is that Scottish Gaelic name for Buachaille Etive Mòr (‘great herdsman of Etive’) | My Highland Photography by Pat McElhinney