Talk:Tobermory, Mull

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[edit] Article title

Policy for UK towns is to state town and county (or island), not town and country. This is necessary for disambiguation reasons. -- Derek Ross

When was this decided? I was under the impression no agreement had been reached on this. Warofdreams 18:38, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)
The last "agreement" that I'm aware of was reached sometime near the end of 2002. However these agreements tend to switch backwards and forwards in my experience so you're probably right -- no agreement may well be the case at the moment. In the absence of agreement, I prefer to rely on logic. And to me logic says that while there are towns such as Letham (in Fife and in Angus) or Newburgh (all over the place), disambiguating by county is going to be much more effective than disambiguating by Scotland/England. -- Derek Ross 23:18, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)
In the case of islands, disambiguation by island seems by far the most sensible option - far more people know that Tobermory is on Mull than know that it's in Argyll and Bute. This article was at Tobermory, Mull until it got moved last June, and we already have Bridgend, Islay, Calgary, Mull et al (and I can't find any counter-examples). If there are no objections I'm going to move this back to Tobermory, Mull, since "Tobermory, Argyll and Bute" sounds horrible. --Blisco 13:36, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Done. --Blisco 11:45, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Etymology

I'm guessing ToberMory means St. Mary's Well or Spring. Am I right? Or maybe even Murray's Well (but that's unlikely???)

[edit] Pronounciation

Does it rhyme with Murray, Gory or Sorry? - Kittybrewster (talk) 21:37, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

?Gory?--MacRusgail 22:39, 12 August 2007 (UTC)