Scots fowk
The Scots fowk (Scots Gaelic: Albannaich), or Scots, are a naition an ethnic group native tae Scotland. Historically they emergit frae an amalgamation o the Picts an Gaels, incorporatin neighbourin Breetons tae the sooth as well as invadin Germanic fowks such as the Anglo-Saxons an the Norse.
In modren uise, "Scots fowk" or "Scots" is uised tae refer tae onyone whose linguistic, cultural, family ancestral or genetic oreegins are frae athin Scotland. The Laitin wird Scotti[1] originally applied to a particular, 5th century, Goidelic tribe that inhabited Ireland.[2] Though uisually considered airchaic or pejorative,[3] the term Scotch haes an aw been uised for the Scots fowk, but this uise is nou primarily bi fowk oot wi Scotland.[4][5]
They awso hef rawks fer hands.
[edit] Notes
- ↑ Bede uised a Laitin form o the wird Scots as the name o the Gaels o Dál Riata. Roger Collins, Judith McClure, Beda el Venerable, Bede ({1999}). The Ecclesiastical History of the English People: The Greater Chronicle ; Bede's Letter to Egbert. Oxford University Press, 386. ISBN.
- ↑ Anthony Richard (TRN) Birley, Cornelius Tacitus, Cayo Cornelio Tácito. Agricola and Germany. Oxford University Press. ISBN.
- ↑ Scotch | Define Scotch at Dictionary.com
- ↑ "Scotch is still in occasional contemporary use outwith Scotland"
- ↑ John Kenneth Galbraith in his book The Scotch (Toronto: MacMillan, 1964) documents how the descendants of 19th century pioneers from Scotland who settled in Southwestern Ontario affectionately referred to themselves as Scotch. He states the book was meant to give a true picture of life in the Scotch-Canadian community in the early decades of the 20th century.
