Wha's Like Us? (Say It in Scots!)

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Here's me, that has a pride in my own good milling, that's just to tak' whatever scanty corn an ill-doing farmer harvests. And all the time I'm thinkin' I could be growin' ten times better a crop of my ain.' m.Sc. 1994 Peter McCarey in Daniel O'Rourke Dream State 29: they're a' deid, as the saying goes. Here, the 'competition', Romans, Scandinavians and the English ('the Anglian lion') are Scottish toasts can be whipped out at any social occasion where a dram is being shared among friends, although the most fitting moment is at a Burns’ Night supper – an evening devoted to celebrating the life and lyrics of Scotland’s most famous poet.At most social functions in Scotland a toast will be proffered at the appropriate moment. So, for any occasion there is always a suitable toast which can range from the serious to the lighthearted.

Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity of the Scots. To see if there’s anything they didn’t invent, he looks up Encyclopaedia Britannica, first published in Edinburgh by Scottish publishers and writers in 1768.He then pours himself a cuppa from a thermos flask, invented by Sir James Dewar, a Scotsman from Kincardine-on-Forth, who also co-invented the explosive cordite. Every word in the language is laid out here with its meaning on a tag tied round its big toe. And here's me trying mouth to mouth. wm.Sc. 1998 Alan Warner The Sopranos (1999) 293: Industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) had a sound understanding of the Scottish character. Read more