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Chalk Hill's biggest Pictsie, Big Yan was tough enough to knock out a horse in two headbutts. He is one of the more senior of Rob Anybody's brothers.

Given the Discly version of a Scottish accent that the Pictsies use, the name Big Yan sounds likely to be a reference to the Scottish comedian Billy Connolly, who is often known as the Big Yin. In Scotland, this is pronounced with the emphasis on Big, and simply means the Big One. I have read somewhere that he was once introduced in England as the Big Yin (emphasis on the Yin) as if a Yin was some strange Scottish creature.

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