Scottish Trivia #1

ABERCROMBIE is a word of possibly (mixed) Pictish origin, which can be poetically translated as 'the mouth of the bendy river'.

Let's break that down:

ABER-
from Pictish (possibly a p-Celtic language) meaning: a confluence of waters, or mouth of a water way.

CROMB-
in the old Irish (which is a q-Celtic language) meaning: bent.

Therefore, the only question left to ask: Does the clothing company realize that they're name means bent river mouth? And why don't they sell more rafting equipment?

On a more applicable note:
ABERDEEN can be poetically translated as 'where the male and female river gods meet'. However, is this my own poetic translation and should not at all be considered relevant to any sort of academic scholarship.

The academic hints that lead me to this poetic translation are:
1) ABER - confluence of waters
2) The city is located on the joining of the River's Dee and Don.
3) W. F. H. Nicolaisen, a Scottish Place Name scholar and research fellow at the Elphinstone Institute (my school) says "River Don (Devana c. 150 AD Ptolemy), from devos 'god', cf. River Dee (Deva) - 'goddess'. " (W.F.H. Nicolaisen, The Picts and their Place Names (Rosemarkie: Groam House, 1996) p. 18)
4) Therefore Don is a male god, and Dee is a female god.
5) We can assume they mean water gods becuase they are attached to rivers.

Now a piece of poetry I just made up:

ABERDEEN
Where the River Gods meet
and dance without feet to the sounds of their waters
and songs from their daughters