Posted on 03/20/2010 8:00:24 AM PDT by jay1949
Yeah, I know. But to the Scots, there is their culture and their Scotland. The Irish have theirs and never the twain shall meet.
You beat me to it. Scot-Irish are not Irish who drank a lot of scotch! They are Scots who lived for a while in Ireland(escaping the English)and then came to America. As a person of Scot-Irish ancestry I resent the term Scotch Irish. One can’t expect journalist to actually know anything about the subjects they write about I suppose.
Oh, yes. We who have Scotch Irish ancestors (I have a few, but not predominant, more English and German) have distant cousins in New Jersey and elsewhere who regard themselves as Ulster Scots, always have, and I’ll refer to them by that descriptive if they’ll extend the same courtesy.
I’m not sure what bothers others about “Scotch” anyway. The association with alcohol? It’s always meant Scottish down here. Our state sea shell in North Carolina is the Scotch Bonnet. There are Scotch Bonnet peppers as well. No hue and cry being raised about that, as far as I know.
Scotch plaid, Scotch Tape (with a tartan plaid on the package) ... there is plenty of reference for the spelling and meaning that is traditional here.
Thanks.
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