Most of us are dead, or buried anyway

JohnthePilot · 10-28-2007, 04:23 PM

I came across this whilst looking for something else and thought it was funny, so thought I'd share it with you.

http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?...4&id=525692004

**EnglishPaul** · 10-28-2007, 04:31 PM

I think it is probably an advert for devolution!

Taxidermy is the way forward; the days of Madame Tussauds domination are numbered!

DonaldG · 10-29-2007, 01:14 AM

Quote:

ROBERT McNEIL'S WEEK
There aren’t many of us left, and most of them are dead.

The famous old Scotch saying sprang to mind when I read that Chilean undertakers are offering to fit sensors inside coffins,

This was in the "Scotsman" newspaper, published, I presume, in Scotland. Written by Mr McNeil, a Scotsman, I presume.

SO! Why does a Scotsman, writing in a Scottish paper in Scotland, referring to a Scottish saying as "Scotch"?

Is it only us Sassenachs know full well that Scotch is a venerable drink?

Exit saying: “<twibat> the bottle is empty again. Androo, hop down and get another bottle of Scottish!”

JohnthePilot · 10-29-2007, 03:59 AM

The use of Scotch, Scottish and Scots is actually quite complicated. Robbie Burns used Scotch quite extensively and to quote A.J. Aitken, "for working class Scots the common form has long been Scotch....and the native form Scots is sometimes regarded as an Anglicized affectation." Scotch is now generally used mainly in a few collocations: Scotch broth, Scotch egg, Scotch mist, Scotch tweed, Scotch terrier and Scotch whisky.

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