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	Scots-Online - Pittin the Mither Tongue on the Wab!
		Scots - the language of lowland Scotland, a descendant of the Anglo-Saxon Language.
		The Scots language is also known as the Doric, the Buchan Claik, the Patter, Lallans (Lowland Scots,)Braid Scots, Broad Scotch, Scotch, The Mither Tongue and in Ulster as Ulster Scotch or Ullans and to some simply the Scottish dialect.
		Scots texts for those who are interested in learning Scots or for those who already speak it and wish to enjoy it.
	www.scots-online.org (398 words)

	Ulster-Scots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The migration of Scots to Ulster occurred during the 17th and 18th centuries (as detailed in the articles History of Scotland and Plantations of Ireland).
		The first major influx of Scots into Ulster came during the Plantation of Ulster in 1610, when the native Irish landowners were dispossessed en masse and the province settled with English and Scottish "Planters".
		After this point, Scots and their descendants, who were identified primarily by their Presbyterian religion, became the majority in the province.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Scotch-Irish (491 words)

	Tacoma Scots Pipe Band Home Page
		To honor this history, the Tacoma Scots Pipe Band has provided thousands of folks in the Pacific Northwest with the music and ceremony that stirs the hearts of young and old.
		The Tacoma Scots are a non-profit, tax-exempt organization, supported through paid public and private performances, concerts and prize money from competitive Highland games.
		Members of the Tacoma Scots are available as a band, small group or individual for parades, weddings, funerals, parties and special events.
	www.tspb.org (463 words)

	Scots Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Scots tribe originated from Ireland, from the now-called counties Antrim and Down.
		In 500 AD, under King Fergus the Scots invaded Argyll and established the realm known as Dál Riata (a.k.a Dalriada) in the Pictish lands, known as Caledonian by the Romans.
		After successfully defeating the Scots, the Picts strength was severely weakened by a major battle with the Vikings in 839.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/s/sc/scots.html (299 words)

	Scots language and alphabet
		Scots is descended from the language of the Angles who settled in northern Britain, in an area now known as Nortumbria and southern Scotland, in the 5th century AD.
		By the 14th century Scots was the main language of Scotland and was used in literature, education, government and in legal documents.
		Since Scots was once the state language of Scotland, it is a valid part of our heritage and the society recognises that it should be able to take its place as a language of Scotland, along with Gaelic and English.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/scots.htm (547 words)

	Merlin Press Questions about Scots Lang
		Scots is the language spoken by the population of Lowland Scotland.
		Standard literary Scots was undermined by the Authorised Version of the Bible in 1611, the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the Union of the Parliaments in 1707, and since the 18th century has tended to be replaced by English.
		But Scots continued to be spoken and sung in its various forms and used for poetry, and writers in the 20th century have made efforts to work towards a standard literary form.
	www.sol.co.uk /m/merlinpress/questions.html (1212 words)

	Scots on the Wab - Historie o Scots in Scots
		Ae criticism o Scots novels is hoo dialogue an prose ar for ordinar scrievit in unalike leids, lavin a waikniss or pit-on at the hert o Scottish liteerature.
		The former thoucht (richt) the Scots wis wattered doun fur the Inglish mercat, and the hinner cudna unnerstaun it oniegate.
		Houanivver Scots his bidit unco thrawn an maistlie kis it aloos fowk tae express thaimsels an thair heft in a wey Inglish jist canna (monie Scots wirds is gey unowersettable).
	members.aol.com /minoritas/scotslan.htm (2358 words)

	Scottish languages, Gaelic and Scots
		Scots has virtually none of the resources that are now channeled in the direction of Gaelic.
		There is no radio or TV broadcasting in Scots, it is, generally speaking, not taught in school, and it is not at all used as an educational medium.
		But Scots, the language with many speakers and low status, enjoys nowhere near the public support and awareness that is afforded Gaelic, which has far fewer speakers but at the same time carries far greater symbolic weight.
	www.olestig.dk /scotland/scottishlanguages.html (859 words)

	Articles - Scots language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Scots became considered to have a substratal relationship to English as opposed to an adstratal relationship.
		However, most younger Scots today see a Scottish accent, that is, Scottish English, as a sufficient marker of their Scottishness and are generally not interested in retaining bilingualism in a language they consider old-fashioned, parochial, or simply uncool.
		Ulster Scots, spoken by the descendants of Scottish settlers as well as those of Irish descent in Northern Ireland and County Donegal in the Irish Republic, and sometimes described by the neologism "Ullans", a conflation of "Ulster" and "Lallans".
	www.gaple.com /articles/Scots_language?mySession=22fb7f2f050e1180389701fa39722c1f (3095 words)

	Scottish Culture and Heritage: Languages
		Scots (evolving from Anglian) soon became the language of the lowlands while Gaelic became that of the Highlands.
		Linguists say Scots at it's height was as different from English as Spanish from Portuguese or Swedish from Danish.
		The status and future of both Scots and Gaelic will be dictated by the future of Scotland with regard to the United Kingdom.
	www.scotsmart.com /info/culture/languages.html (701 words)

	Hae a guid crack: Scots
		For at least three hundred years, Scots has been misidentified and denigrated as "bad English." Absent from schools, its orthography lost, Scots has become the stuff of folklore and comedy.
		Scots is a language, one fully as old, as modern, and as distinct as English.
		By the Union of 1707, Scots had largely been deposed by its sister dialect in all formal environments.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/world_languages/73342 (535 words)

	Scots in English?
		After the fourteenth century, Scots was the language of all the people of Scotland, including the royal court, the law, the Church and the arts.
		I was determined to teach my pupils to write in Scots, so I evolved my own method, by trial and error, and for what it was worth, it was outlined in a booklet which the Perth Branch of the Scots Language Society had printed and circulated to primary schools in the district.
		What we should really concentrate on is teaching children who mumble and slur their Scots, because they've been taught to be ashamed of it and think it doesn't matter how they enunciate it, that this is a fine, expressive language that they should take pride in and try to use well.
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /SESLL/STELLA/STARN/crit/scotsine.htm (2469 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! Scotland: Great Scots of Note
		Her character and career as Queen of Scots was defended by no less than John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, who also supported her particular claim to succeed Elizabeth as Queen of England.
		He is a Scot, who certainly made a difference, for as naval architect and ship builder, he constructed the largest and fastest clipper ships of his time.
		From Johnstone, Renfrewshire, McLachlan left Glasgow for Canada in 1840 where his Scots dialect poetry gave him a reputation as "the Burns of Canada." A collected edition of his work, in which he deals with the homesickness of Scottish immigrants, is The Poetical Works of Alexander McLachlan (1900).
	www.britannia.com /celtic/scotland/greatscots/m5.html (3780 words)

	Scots Guards
		Scots Guardsmen are fiercely proud of their unbroken service and loyalty to the Monarch and their hard won reputation as fighting soldiers.
		Underpinning the highest standards of ceremonial in front of Buckingham Palace in the heart of London is the fact that every Guardsman is a fully trained, self-disciplined infantry soldier ready for war fighting or peacekeeping operations at short notice in arduous conditions in any part of the world.
		Stationed since late 2003 in Oxford Barracks, Munster, the 1st Battalion Scots Guards is in the role of armoured infantry, equipped with the Warrior armoured fighting vehicle, having previously specialised in arid and desert environments.
	www.army.mod.uk /scotsguards/index.htm (249 words)

	Mary, Queen of Scots
		After the Scots' defeat at Pinkie (1547) she was sent by her mother to France.
		There she was brought up at the glittering French court of Henry II, where she excelled at hunting and dancing, and was carefully educated in the manner of a Frenchwoman.
		For fans of Mary, Queen of Scots, be advised that a more complete and in-depth article on her is in the works for this web site for 2005.
	members.aol.com /skyelander/mary.html (933 words)

	Is Scots a Leid or Dialect? \| Antimoon Forum
		All that happened is that Scots an Ignlis drifted thar seperate ways, but thay dinna stray too far aff frae each other through the ages.
		Scots is a kind of English so writing in Scots in writing in English.
		Scots an Inglis started to part ways in the 12th an 13th centuries wi the coming o the Normans tae Scotlan.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/2003/2522.htm (647 words)

	Scots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scots (ethnic group), historical people of Dalriada, a Gaelic-speaking kingdom in western Scotland
		The Scots College (TSC or Scots), a private school, Sydney, Australia
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scots (102 words)

	Boarding School, Cadets, Private School - The Scots School
		Scots is a traditional School with a modern approach to educational practice.
		We want to share with you our way of life, answer questions you may have and help you in making one of the most important decisions in your child's life.
		If you would like further information regarding The Scots School Bathurst or Lithgow, please use the enquiry form provided on the contact page.
	www.scots.nsw.edu.au (172 words)

	Scotland: Scots Dictionary
		Modern Scots is widely spoken but not often written, and many words therefore have variant spellings based on the writer's attempt to represent his/her pronounciation of the word, which can very depending on where he/she is from.
		The main entry for a word comes at the spelling which is believed to be the most common in current use.
		It is also used in the Scots pronunciation of Fife and tide, as distinct from the longer vowel in five and tied
	www.britannia.org /scotland/scotsdictionary (461 words)

	Wir Ain Leid - Ulster Scots
		Scots settled in the northern half of the Ards Peninsula spreading at first through Newtonards and Comber and then across the northern half of Down.
		Scots also settled from Island Magee to Glenarm and in the west as far as Antrim town and in the North at Ballymoney.
		Ulster Scots is on the whole a variant of West Central Scots.
	www.scots-online.org /grammar/uscots.htm (721 words)

	History of the Monarchy > The Stewarts > Mary, Queen of Scots
		His army set fire to the Abbey of Holyroodhouse where James V was buried, burned crops in the Tweed Valley and set ablaze the Border abbeys of Melrose, Jedburgh and Dryburgh.
		Undeterred, the Scots in 1548 betrothed Mary to the French King Henri II's heir, the Dauphin Francis, and sent her to be brought up at the French Court.
		She was buried in Peterborough Cathedral, but in 1612 her son James VI and I had her body exhumed and placed in the vault of King Henry VII's Chapel in Westminster Abbey.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page134.asp (750 words)

	Biographies of Famous Scots
		Famous Scots have explored the world, noting its natural wonders (John Muir and David Douglas, namer of the Douglas Fir) and bringing their deeply held religious beliefs to people everywhere.
		Along with their acknowledged gift for music, Scots excel at all the fine arts and have produced some famous actors such as Sean Connery, David Niven, and Ewan McGregor, not to mention world-famous art nouveau artist and designer, Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
		Scots Olympic runner Eric Liddell was made famous in the movie Chariots of Fire.
	www.heartoscotland.com /Categories/FamousScots.htm (898 words)

	Ulster-Scots & Irish Unionist Resource - The Scots Immigration / The Plantation. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		And Ulster Scots is the name by which the Scots-Irish are known in
		Queen of Scots) came to the throne in 1603, the border was finally
		Scots to English in Ulster was 20 to 1.
	www.ulster-scots.co.uk /docs/articles/historical/ulsterscots6.htm (803 words)

	Wir Ain Leid - An introduction to Modern Scots
		Such decisions are usually based on stylistic and contextual factors, the use of Scots being far more likely among the working-class and older rural people, especially those whose exposure to the anglicizing endeavors of the Scottish education system has not been longer than necessary.
		Nae pairt o this darg shuid be doobelt, hained in ony kin o seestem, or furthset in ony shape or by ony gate whitsomeiver, athoot haein leave frae the writer afore-haund.
		A hae nae pleens whan the abuin is duin for tae fordle the Scots leid in eddication, sae lang's naebody is makkin siller oot o't.
	www.scots-online.org /grammar (578 words)

	Famous Scots
		Here are biographies of a growing selection of Scots who have had an influence on the world - ranging from saints in the 6th century to Billy Connolly in the 20th.
		But if you are looking for someone specific, you may find it faster to use the "search" or "find" function on your browser.
		- Voted recently as the Scot who had made the greatest impact in the last 1,000 years.
	www.rampantscotland.com /famous/famous.htm (1544 words)

	Irish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Although the Lowland Scots would have acquired a few customs of the native Irish, they became associated with the "Irish" and separated from their Scottish brethren only so far as having taken up residence in that island.
		But in that instance she was referring specifically to a small group of Highlander Scots of Celtic ancestry who had gone to Ireland and intermarried with fellow Celts.
		The name, Scotch-Irish, is a bit deceptive; one might be led to believe that it implies the intermingling and marriage of people of the two nationalities.
	www.motherbedford.com /Irish.htm (386 words)

	Scots Irish and the US
		SCOTS IRISH are the decendants of the Scots who immigrated to Northern Ireland (flag shown above) mainly in the 1600's and then many moved on to the US in the 1700's.
		The Scots Irish population in Northern Ireland today is much less than 1,000,000 - this shows how many left to find a new life in America and why almost every Scots Irish family has relations in the US and also New Zealand and Australia.
		The influence of the Scots Irish on the formation of the US as we know it today is little known from Dunlap who printed the Declaration of Independence to Davy Crockett in the Wild West to Sam Huston in Texas and even to George Bush today.
	www.geocities.com /WallStreet/1250 (381 words)

	The Scottish Parliament: - Languages - Scots
		This section o wir wabsite introduces ye til the information that is tae haun on wir wabsite in Scots.
		Ye are walcome tae visit the Pairlament tae hae a keek roon or find oot aboot whit wey the Pairlament warks.
		Report on Inquiry intil the role o educational and cultural policy in uphaudin and bringin oot Gaelic, Scots and minority leids in Scotland (Volume 1) - Education, Culture and Sport Comatee (2nd Report 2003)
	www.scottish.parliament.uk /vli/language/scots/index.htm (405 words)

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