Mc Alley

An old mining camp Messrs Mc Alley, established in 1921 as Messrs Mc ALLEY & Nicholls. An adulterated pronunciation of the name of the town brought about the name Mista–Ali [1] The camp was located in the place popularly called “office” in Biciza, a land of the Boze people, a language [2] spoken north of Jos town in Central Nigeria.

References
  1. "Tin Mining on the Jos Plateau of Nigeria". JSTOR. 2019-06-11. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  2. Blench, Roger M. 2018. Nominal affixing in the Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria. In John R. Watters (ed.), East Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs, 59–106. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1314323

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