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Wigtown

American  
[wig-tuhn, -toun] / ˈwɪg tən, -ˌtaʊn /

noun

  1. a historic county in SW Scotland.


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However, the Open Book in Wigtown - which has been running for a decade - now has a two-year waiting list.

From BBC Aug. 30, 2024

Organisers of the Wigtown festival had previously said they were confident that sponsorship it received conformed to "transparent ethical standards".

From BBC Jun. 5, 2024

"It is with regret that we announce that the partnership between Wigtown Book Festival and Baillie Gifford is to end," said a board statement.

From BBC Jun. 5, 2024

For the last 20 years, Shaun Bythell has owned and run The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland.

From Washington Post Dec. 29, 2022

She had been separated from Maisie and her father after the capture, and taken to Wigtown instead of accompanying them toward Edinburgh.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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