[AnAmericanMother]

The reporter should be set upon by a bunch of burly guys with cabers and hammers . . .

Error No. 1: A kilt is not a "skirt." It's made in a completely different way, and it will not fit a lady. That's why they make "tartan day skirts" for women.

Error No. 2: "Plaid" is not a pattern or color. It's a garment (the square of fabric now worn folded over the shoulder, formerly joined to the kilt, which was known at the time as the "belted plaid.") The pattern is referred to as "tartan."

This information is common knowledge and available to everybody, including reporters, not just those of us who belong to pipe bands or Scottish Country Dance Society chapters . . .

[Vigilanteman]

The reporter should be set upon by a bunch of burly guys with cabers and hammers .

Yeah, call it a skirt again and ye'll get kilt.