[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: British names: Torquil?!? and Diana Wynne Jones

[silverdragon at ezweb.com.au]

> > > I was reading "The Edge" by Dick Francis last night, and the main
> > > character's name is Tor, short for Torquil.  ....  How would you
pronounce it??

I'm unsure of the pronounciation of the name, but apparently (according to
my books) it comes from the Scottish Gaelic form of the Old Norse name
Thoreketill, probably meaning "Thor's Cauldron".

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