Talk:Lake of Menteith

This article needs a map, and an explanation of the etymology of the names: not the relatively trivial lake/loch question, but why Menteith, when the Gaelic is obviously names the loch after the island (Innis = Inch = island). Surely Menteith can't be a corruption of MoCholmaig? --Doric Loon 10:07, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Three other lakes?
What is the basis of the claim that there are (only) three other lakes in Scotland? Only three that the editor could think of? For instance there is also Raith Lake to the west of Kirkcaldy. Mutt Lunker 16:33, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

No citation forthcoming so edited accordingly. I didn't amend it to say there are definitively four lakes in Scotland as there may possibly be others. Incidentally, and for what it's worth, I understand Raith Lake is also artificial. Mutt Lunker (talk) 22:26, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

The reason that menteith is a lake and not a loch is due to William Wallace being captured by Menteith and nothing Scottish being linked with his name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.20.239.27 (talk) 15:14, 7 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure I entirely understand the above unsigned comment, but it seems at odds with the derivation from "laich", which seems more plausible. With regards other instances of "lakes" in Scotland, there are three in the grounds of Haddo House called Kelly Lake, Upper Lake and Keithfield Lake (possibly all artificial), and then there's the "Kirk Lakes", a (very small) coastal feature at St Combs.  --Deskford (talk) 16:12, 20 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I found reference to this in an article on the Scots language by the late Dr. David Purves (http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-dr-david-purves-bsc-phd-writer-in-scots-1-3651511). In an article about about Scots that is archived on the Scottish Corpus of Speech and Text website(http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/document/?documentid=923),he writes (under the heading "The Anglicisation of Place Names"): "Loch Menteith becomes 'The Lake of Menteith' by corrupting "The Laigh o Menteith", the name of the adjoining "carse"" Curious chiel (talk) 12:47, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

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