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Scots spelling has always been a wee bit "variable" - people wrote it down the way it sounded to them, and as not everyone was fully literate, and there were no hard and fast rules on spelling at the time, both place- and people-names vary from record to record. Hence Mc and MacDonald in the same story of this place. Once the Ordnance Survey had surveyed an area, the name they used tended to stick - though in the Gaelic areas the OS now are reverting to the original names for many of the hills and other places, replacing the Victorian anglicised versions. A good idea.
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