Talk:loneroid

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This apparently comes from this 1910 quotation: "At the south end the ling fell over its marge in a curling wave: under the mountain-ash there was a drift of moss and fragrant loneroid, as the Gaels call the bog- myrtle." [1] Scottish Gaelic for bog myrtle being simply roid, I have a dark suspicion that what those Gaels actually said was làn roide = [a place] full of bog myrtle. It may be Irish though. --Thrissel 15:00, 23 July 2011 (UTC)Reply