The thread seems to have wandered onto awkward territory. I think in most houses it is the woman who knows where everything is irrespective of who put it there.
In an attempt to return to the subject, another feature of Kintyre vernacular is the dropping of the “Mac” in surnames. I have never heard this being done in any other part of Scotland. Maybe somebody else knows different. Is it an Irish thing?
It seems to happen where the first name ends in a vowel sound, so that, for example: (fictitious names here for demonstration)
“William MacSquachle” would become “Willie 'Squachle”
“John MacGlumpher” would become “Johnnie 'Glumpher”
There must be some historical reason, maybe in the Gaelic tradition, why this happens in Kintyre and nowhere else. It is one of these aspects of local language use that we all do and take for granted until we think about it and wonder “why?”
I know that the Mac is often dropped in my maternal surname, which is one of the oldest names in Kintyre, and that bearers of the name are often referred to locally by the Gaelic version of the name, with or without the Mac.