2015-07-11 (Day 192)

The name of the town of Falkirk is thought to derive from "Faw Kirk", meaning "speckled church". I like the description from the <a href="http://www.falkirklocalhistorysociety.co.uk/home/index.php?id=73"&gt;Falkirk Local History Society</a>'s web site:

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The first time it appears as FALKIRK is in 1458 when presumably some scribe or another thought that since the way we Scots say WA' instead of WALL and BA' instead of BALL then FA in the towns name should be written as FAL. And we have been making the same mistake ever since. Except the children and football fans who say FA'KIRK. They are right!
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Anyway, today I was in Fa'kirk and passed by the modern descendant of that original church, the Falkirk Trinity Church.