Thanks, McG of H. I think I've taken care of it. I should have realized that a cookie had crumbled!

Thread creep: I'd always understood that rig was a Scottish dialect word referring to a stack of grain (corn, barley, etc) rather than a "strip of farmland" although I can see how some confusion might arise. I'm, just listening to Alex Beaton (a Scots singer now transplanted to Arizona) singing the song variously titled as "Corn Rigs" and "The Rigs o' Barley." It has the line "When corn rigs are bonnie-o" (the verse indicates that they are bonnie on "a Lammas night" (Lammas referring to the harvest festival) under an "unclouded moon"). Also lines like "I kissed her owre and owre again, amang the rigs of barley-o." Both of these lines suggest a reference to stacks of corn or barley rather than to a strip of farmland. BUT, with the CD is a small glossary which says, "Rig - measure of land." Now I'm really confused. I checked the Scottish Glossary here on the Mudcat and found: "Rig - ridge+back", also: "rig-bane - backbone", and also" "rigs o' rye - haystacks." Now I'm really, really confused. Any 'Catters want to try to clarify all this?

(Should there be a new thread called Rigs?)

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