On Sunday, September 29, 1996 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, Robert & Linda Wilson   
   wrote:   
   > I am interested in finding out the origins of the quaint Glasgow   
   > adjective "Wally", (usually pronounced Waaally).   
   >   
   >  It has been used to qualify nouns such as: Close or dog. i.e. in the   
   > vernacular _- "We hid a wally close in oor tenament". or "He's a wally   
   > dug sittin oan his fireplace."   
   >   
   > It obviously refers to the china or porcelin used in the manufacture of   
   > tiles or ornaments. But how china became wally beats me.   
   >   
   > Any ideas ?   
      
   An aside, would you be of the Wilson family related to the Mathers family?  I   
   have a pair of the dogs that my grandfather brought to Canada from Scotland in   
   1958.   
      
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