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Unofficial reason: Winston Churchill was Dundee's M.P. from 1908 until he was trounced at the polls in 1922 by a Scottish prohibitionist and teetotaler named Edwin Scrymgeour. Mild-eyed Scrym stuffed his speeches with Old Testament quotes on the evils of John Barleycorn, gave Winston a beating he has not forgotten...
Engagement Broken. Mary Ellery Channing, Boston post-debutante, and David Scrymgeour (pronounced skrimjer) Wedderburn, Royal Scots Guards officer, equerry to the Duke of Gloucester; in London...
Rocking in the wake of Mr. Stuart Scrymgeour's artificial-flowery spate of indignation (TIME, Jan. 9), I am reminded that contemporaries of Alexander Scrymgeour, of the days of William Wallace, sometimes referred to him as Alexander Skirmisher, the forms scrimmage and skirmish illustrating the R-metathesis common in English and other Germanic languages. That Mr. Scrymgeour knows how to pronounce his name, or that ancestors of both of us were skirmishers and huntsmen in Scotland "afore the Saxons landed," I do not doubt; but a Scot who supposes that these forbears bore our present, or any other, established...
...Chairlie, for th' Jacobites, for Auld Scotia! Th' English canna dae tae Scrymgeour what they've done tae th' Cholmondeleys, th' Leveson Cowers, th' Majoribanks an' th' St. Johns, pronoonced Chumley, Leeson-Gore, Marshbanks an' Sinjin. Scrymgeour was just that afore th' Saxons landed. A rouse tae ye, TIME, but watch yer step...
...STUART SCRYMGEOUR...