Scots in a sentence

Few Scots support Green policies, which is why few Scots vote Green in the few opportunities afforded to them.

Madison Dixon, the usual catcher for the Lady Scots, went as the Lady Scots’ designated hitter on the night; Ramsey Hale took her spot behind the plate.

The Scots’ head coach, Ryan Hamilton, emphasizes that the Scots have battled through tough games.

With some quick drives by the Scots and successful free throw shots, the Scots ended the first quarter leading 19-16.

British news outlets have been highly critical, describing the situation as a “hijacking of the Scots language” (), “Wikipedia boy butchers Scots language” (), and “Shock an aw” ().

Finally, Notre Dame’s Patrick Griffin, who is the author of “The People with No Name: Ireland’s Ulster Scots, America’s Scots Irish and the creation of a British Atlantic World” will look at early Irish migration in its broad context.

Then there’s hurkle durkle, “an old Scots phrase from the Jamieson’s Etymological Dictionary of the Scots Language (1808), where it is broadly defined as ‘lying in bed, or lounging, long after it’s time to get up’” and, of course, dreich.

His version won the Scots Language Awards Scots Bairns’ Book of the Year accolade last month.

By the 1770s, Highland Scots comprised one-third of the population of that region which over time became known as “Valley of the Scots” with people from Arran, Jura, Islay and Gigha readily found here.

After the development of printing In Middle Scots orthography the use of yogh became confused with a cursive z and the early Scots printers often used z when yogh was not available in their fonts.

Crawfurd was Scots, and thought the Scots "race" superior to all others; whilst Hunt, on the other hand, believed in the supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon "race".

In fact, most Presbyterians found in England can trace a Scottish connection, and the Presbyterian denomination was also taken to North America mostly by Scots and Scots-Irish immigrants.

In Middle Scots the character yogh became confused with a cursive z and the early Scots printers often used z when yogh was not available in their fonts. citation.

It differs somewhat from other Scots dialects most noticeable are the pronunciation f for what is normally written wh and ee for what in standard English would usually be written oo (Scots ui).

MacDiarmid attempted to revive the Scots language as a medium for serious literature in poetic works including " A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle " (1936), developing a form of Synthetic Scots that combined different regional dialects and archaic terms.

According to Savanta UK’s polling since October, the number of Scots who think that independence is one of the country’s top issues is unchanged.

Ahead of the final episode airing on BBC1 this evening, Forsyth said he was delighted with the reaction to the series, which features an all-star cast including Scots stars Jack Lowden and Emun Elliott.

Also don’t forget he is another one of these extreme Scots Tories – a rabid Unionist who would shut down the Scottish Parliament if given half a chance – all part of the “wrecking ball politics” these charlatans practise at Holyrood.

Although much of the poetry and some of the spoken word within the talk features Scots, the author will provide explanations in English as the journey through the magical world of Narnia unfolds.

Although the majority of Scots live in the central belt, Scotland as a whole is a rural country.