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Scottish place names and villages
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Hi tollview - sorry for long delay. Just to clarify, a young gull is SCAURIE also spelt SCORIE, whereas the place name is SCOURIE. I thought I'd found the same spelling for the bird but can't now prove it! So maybe it's a soundalike clue? Anyway here are my refs, Regards ja:
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionarie s/difficultwords/data/d0011580.html
http://www.onelook.com/?w=scorie&ls=a
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scourie
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionarie s/difficultwords/data/d0011580.html
http://www.onelook.com/?w=scorie&ls=a
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scourie