On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:06 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> You need to distinguish between "Scottish English" and "Scots", the
> latter being related to English, but isn't English, much as Danish is
> related to Swedish, but isn't Swedish.

Ah. When I referred to a "Scots" word, I was talking about the Gaelic
language, which has a number of delightfully expressive terms just
waiting to be borrowed!

ChrisA
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