Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of Scottish place-names).
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AICHIL (HILLS). The Ochils or Ochil Hills in Fife and Perthshire (Edb. 1798 H. MacNeill Sc. Muse (1801) I. 135). [′eçəls]Sc. 1807 J. Hall Travels I. 179:
The people of the country do not say the Ochills, nor yet the Aichils, but the Aichil Hills.