Did you know that Scotland would probably be called ´Pictland`?

The ´Scots` were originally an Irish race that crossed the water in the 5th century and settled in the country of the Picts.

The Picts and the Scots fought each other for years. But by the 19th century the Scots had absorbed the whole country.

The Scots language was Gaelic, which is still spoken in the Western Isles (the Hebrides).

Today the language of Scotland is English. In fact the Scots say that the purest and most beautiful form of English is to be heard on the banks of Loch Ness, In the country of Inverness.

They have a very different accent from that of Southern England. The Scots ´roll` the letter ´r`, for instance.

You can also identify a Scotsman by his vocabulary. The Scots do not have children, they have ´bairns`. And although they are certainly good-looking, a Scot would say ´bonnie`. In England people say ‘pretty child’ in Scotland that would be ´a bonnie wee bairn` north of the border.



Nemo me impune lacessit : No one can harm me unpunished. Read more about it.

Famous Scottish folk song; My Bonnie lies over the Ocean by Ella