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Curious Questions: Why do we call a waterproof rain coat a mackintosh?

Scotland has turned out endless inventors of great genius in the past few hundred years, and Charles Macintosh — the man who brought waterproof clothing to the world — was as successful as any of them. Martin Fone tells the story of the macintosh — and how it became the ‘mackintosh’.

‘Where there’s muck, there’s brass’,  ‘where there’s muck, there’s money’,  ‘muck and money go together’… No matter which way you’ve come across the…

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