Re: Scots, scottish, scotch (was: Re: Cyrillic - accented/acuted vowels)

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Tue May 03 2005 - 11:33:27 CDT

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    Marion Gunn wrote:

    > 6. 'Scotch' is called after the country to which it belongs.*

    As a colonial aside to Marion's terminological summary, I'll note that while Scots in
    Scotland call themselves Scots or Scottish, in the parts of Canada settled by Scots they
    still call themselves Scotch.

    JH 

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