Talk:Clan MacLeod of Lewis

message: I wonder if the article should be moved to Clan Macleod of The Lewes, because this is how the chief is styled.--Celtus (talk) 12:58, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The clan is named this way at the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs website.--Celtus (talk) 13:02, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The Standing Council of Scottish chiefs does indeed name the clan as "Macleod of the Lewes", I think that warrants the article to be moved/renamed, noting that it is not spelt with a capital "L" but a lower case "l".QuintusPetillius (talk) 18:54, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

text: For anyone who might come across these comments in the future, it's probably worth pointing out that nowadays hardly any Lewis people use capital letters in their "Mac" surnames in English. It's one of the minor differences between Lewis folk and those from the other Gaelic-speaking islands. Macdonald is another example. People from Skye, Harris, etc. would use MacLeod, MacDonald, and so on. The capital letter is always used in Gaelic though, so technically it's more correct - and I write that as a Lewis Macleod (and native Gaelic-speaker). As is pointed out in other places in the article, "Mac" is the Gaelic for "son". The feminine form is "Nic", a variation of the word for daughter, and this is always used in Gaelic, e.g. NicLeòid. The form "MhicLeoid" (sic) referred to above is the genitive and means literally "of the son of Leod". (There might be some confusion because the clan's name in Gaelic is "Clann MhicLeòid", which means "(The) Children of the son of Leòd".) The correct ordinary nominative form in Gaelic is "MacLeòid", with the accent. Unlike in the Irish language, the space between the Mac and the Leòid seems to have become optional in Scottish Gaelic when it's used as a surname. Of course if you were translating "Leod's son" into Gaelic, you would say "Mac Leòid".Cailean99 (talk) 17:33, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Rename article to [[Clan Macleod of The Lewes]]

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message: As a relative of the MacLeod Family, I couldn't help but notice that you incorrectly listed MacLeod's Castle and Stornoway Castle as two seperate castles. They are actually one and the same. That is why the dates of destruction are the same. Both names are used in old documents, with Stornoway Castle being the most common name, as well as the one used today. After it's destruction in 1653, it's ruins remained until 1882, when they were torn down, and the castle's foundations were incorporated into a new pier wich still stands on the site today. It is the same pier at which the ferry arrives and departs. Let's Castle was actually built on the site of Seaforth Lodge, the resident of a local Lord that was used as a meeting place by the Jacobites. Anasaitis (talk) 23:08, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, I have altered the article accordingly to say that Stornoway Castle was also known as MacLeod's Castle. Thanks.QuintusPetillius (talk) 15:44, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
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