Scots
- noun
- /skɒts/
:
inglés escocés
- Many people in Scotland prefer speaking in Scots rather than Standard English, as it reflects their identity and local culture.
Examples
-
During the festival, I enjoyed listening to poets reciting their works in Scots, showcasing the beauty of the language.
-
Lee Hence Pounds frequent recourse in the in these translations to English or Scots ballad meters, or to the American folk song tradition.
-
WALLACE AND THE SCOTS see them through the smoke.
Fiction book (1995) -
WELL, MY LORD NORFOLK, WOULD YOU TAKE ME TO FIGHT AGAINST THE SCOTS?
-
WITH WALLACE AND THE SCOTS
Fiction book (1995) -
I find that certainly people comfy housing estates in Glasgow and listen a lot, a lot of people who stay new at Scots, Cumbernauld, Falkirk as well.
-
IF I WAS 20 YEARS YOUNGER I WOULD BE PROUD TO FOLLOW YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS AGAINST THE SCOTS.
-
MR. DILLON, WHEN DID MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS LOSE HER HEAD?
-
YOUR COLLIE'S A SCOTTISH BREED ORIGINALLY, AND THE SCOTS CAN BE AWFUL DETERMINED WHEN THEY PUT THEIR MIND TO IT.
-
SCOTS.
Synonyms
A form of English spoken in Scotland with different sounds and words
Compounds
A low evergreen shrub with small purple or pink flowers that covers moors in Scotland
A pine tree with reddish-brown flaky bark and pairs of needles that grows in northern Europe and Asia
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Scots comes from the name for the people, Scot, the same root as Scotland. It originally meant 'of the Scots people', so Scots now names the English variety those people speak.
