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I found that John Duns Scotus was from Duns, Berwickshire. He was very highly
regarded as a scholar, and is currently called "Venerable" by the Catholic Church
which may be preliminary to his being sanctified for his defense of the doctrine
of the Immaculate Conception.
Only much later when the humanists ridiculed his followers did "dunce" come
to mean stupid.
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