Talk:Dun Nosebridge

Etymology -- referencing.
Does the Newton reference only cover the second etymology? If so, I'd suggest promoting it to the first position and adding a "reference needed" to the other one. To me, the first given explanation seems unlikely anyway -- while English and Scots drop the /k/ from Norse /kn/ at the start of words (know, knock as in Knockhill etc), Gaelic preserves it, but the N becomes phonetically rendered as a sort of R. As the Anglicised form is likely to have come via Gaelic, an initial KN would have likely led to the English form "Crowsbridge" rather than "Nosebridge".Prof Wrong (talk) 09:03, 5 June 2012 (UTC)