Re: The Term, Scotch-Irish
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Re: The Term, Scotch-Irish
Wayne Banner 4/19/03
You are both correct in your assessments of the trail of the Scots during the early centuries. Scotland is very, very different from Ireland (proper) in its make-up and culture. But the early Scots were Irish and also the term "Scot" was used by the Romans to mean Irish in general in many cases, and there were Picts living in Ulster etc.
But this insistance on the word "Scotch" meaning whiskey is a modern thing.At one time it was applied to all things Scottish, as well as its whiskey.My family, as evidenced in some of their writings from the 1700's, referred to themselves as "Scotch-Irish".And as is the case now, they were very suspicious of the Catholic Irish, which were few in the South.
I have been corrected by Scots many times for using the word Scotch to mean Scottish.But this is my heritage, and the term was used in the distant past commonly in England, Ireland, and even Scotland sometimes.Why do you think they called their Whiskey "Scotch Whiskey" and then shortened it to "Scotch"?
This insistance is a modern Scottish thing. But some used the term "scotched" to mean terminated or stopped.About the only place you saw "Scot" was in the term "Scot-Free", which is very appropriate considering the Celt's tendency toward independence (Scotland and Ireland), and I am not speaking only of nationalism, but in individual independence.
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Harlan May 7/26/03
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Wayne Banner 7/29/03
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Ishmael Williams 7/27/03
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