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I’ve been Mulling what to add, but only …

I’ve been Mulling what to add, but only note that around Lochaber, the Skye is beautiful off toward the North Uist!

In sports, I believe that’s what’s called a “home court advantage.”
pedantickarl, take note: placename etymology
No, Bob, I didn’t know that, and it’s precisely the sort of etymological tidbit I find fascinating. “Don” is an old Indo-European word meaning “river,” still visible in “Danube” and, on Marina’s turf, the Dnieper, Dniester, and Don Rivers of Russia and Ukraine. I had thought to ask you if there was a river Deen, being too lazy to look at the map, but fortunately you read my mind, as I was also too lazy to write the question.

There’s an Aberdeen in Washington State, at a river mouth near the Pacific coast.
Not only is Marina learning Gaelic, but she’s now Lady Marina Orlova of Lochaber. We’ll make an honorary Celt out of her yet!
***Etymological note to Marina***
May it please your Ladyship,
The “aber” in Lochaber is Gaelic and Welsh for a place where one body of water opens into another, e.g. a river mouth, and is cognate with the Latin aperire, “to open.” Exempli gratia: Aberdeen (Scotland), Aberystwyth (Wales).
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A pretty young prof from Lochaber
Had students who tended to jabber.
They were often unpleasant
With punning incessant
And ribald and risque palaver!

(OK, I cheated on the last rhyme, but I have a Toastmasters meeting to get to!)