[Magdalen] More Clergy DWI

[sally.davies at gmail.com]

I think the term used in Scotland for the English is "Sassenachs". '

It probably gets worse by adding adjectives...

Sally D
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 at 06:51 James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Scots are technically British, but would rather not be called Brits, I
> suspect.
>
> I recall reading about a time during a great unpleasantness, when a lot of
> people from the US were stationed in The British Isles, and they were all
> called Yanks.  Always wondered how staid Virginians coped with that.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**"  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Marion Thompson <
> marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Here I think we have, on the one hand, 'Brits' being used to mean loosely
> > the English,'them over there', but on the other more-accurate hand,
> > British includes the Scots who are most definitely not English.
> >
> > Marion, a pilgrim
> >
> >
> > On 3/18/2015 7:37 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> >
> >> But not English. And quite a number of my Scottish friends refer to the
> >> English as "Brits"....when they aren't calling them something worse <g>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Roger Stokes <r.s.stokes.65 at cantab.net
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>  ------ Original Message ------
> >>> From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> >>> To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> >>> Sent: 18/03/2015 14:08:24
> >>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] More Clergy DWI
> >>>
> >>>   We had a piper at our church in Tennessee on the occasion of the
> 300th
> >>>
> >>>> anniversary of the consecration of Samuel Seabury by the Scottish
> >>>> bishops,
> >>>> which I have always privately thought the Scots looked on as another
> >>>> opportunity to stick it to the Brits.
> >>>>
> >>>>  The Scots are British.
> >>>
> >>> Roger
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >
>