Of Bhoys and Men - The Moray Firth
By: Cham | February 24th, 2007
Tomorrow, Gordon and the Bhoys travel up to Inverness for a Scottish Cup quarterfinal. In reading up on the match, I kept coming across the oft-used local phrase that most Scottish newspapers utilized in denoting the local of Inverness - at the southwestern corner of the Moray Firth.
A Firth, for those unfamiliar with loose Gaelic, is a waterway term, basically an inlet. Its cognate is the Scandinavian fjord. But don’t get this confused with the ever-popular loch (e.g., Loch Ness, of course); lochs (not loches) are usually sea- and melted glacier- water closed off by land from the North Sea ocean water that surrounds the majority of Scotland. Of course, you could use sea-loch to describe these geographical occurrences, but we here at the Celtic Offside Report prefer firth.
We are Celtic. This is the Celtic Offside Report. And we like firths.
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