Tom: You have either made clear or strongly implied that the majority of Caldwells migrating to America, Canada, and Australia in the 17th and early 18th centuries were from the counties of Antrim, Down and Donegal in North Ireland, and descendants from 17th century plantation settlers and covenanters that had migrated from Renfrewshire and Ayrshire, Scotland. You have also mentioned how names commonly were misstaken for something more familiar when spoken. I understand that there were dozens of Scot dialects in the various regions of Scotland and Ulster Ireland in the 17th and 18th centuries. The dialect spoken and read most often in Ayrshire and Renfrewshire was a lowland Scottish dialect called Ullans, the same Scot dialect favored by native Ayrshire son, Robert Burns, in much of his poetry. This dialect would have been transported to North Ireland and from there, seeded world-wide, as occurred with Auld Lang Syne. In Great Britain, these dialects reflected distinct influences of Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Dutch, French, Frisian, Danish, and Norse languages. Bye and bye the press, pulpit, popular sentiment, and public schools pruned these dialects of undesired words, and perhaps this may have something to do with a Pope-bashing Pulpit Pastor Predestinarian Caldwell replacing the confessional Catholic Colville, or a gentry Glasgow Caldwell replacing a Gaelic Gallish Gauldwally. Do I win the prize? Aye, Dean. Reply: Naw. Tom