Once again, I have been catching up on episodes of the Napoleonic Wars podcast,- plaudits to all, like and subscribe etc, etc - but here I am taking up my keyboard to comment on a detail that has on numerous occasions, now, been causing me momentarily to flinch at the mention of the various officers and statesmen who once answered to the name of 'DUNDAS'. For the sake of my digestion, and to the enhanced dignity of the podcast no doubt, I should be grateful if it could be disseminated to all interested parties that this Scottish surname deriving from the place name Dundas, conforms to the Celtic language pattern of generic followed by specific, in this case dun, a fort or defensible feature, followed by deas 'southerly,' and is not therefore pronounced 'dun-derss' but- 'DUN-DAS.'
General Sir David DunDAS Henry DunDAS, Lord Melville. There it is. It's good to share. I feel better already Cordially JF
Not a lot of people know that...
Sassenachs, eh? Mind you, my mother was an Elliot, so I thought I was half-Reiver. Turns out to be Breton!