Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Englishmen, who recall that nine of "their" Prime Ministers since the mid-18th century have been Scots, find this Scottish sense of grievance hard to understand. Last week, noting that Prime Minister Macmillan, Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod, Foreign Secretary Lord Home, the chairman of the London Stock Exchange and a clutch of Britain's biggest tycoons are all Scotsmen, London's Tatler declared: "There are those who maintain that the Act of Union has turned out to be more of a Scottish takeover bid." But the Scots have an answer to that one, too. "Once a Scot goes...
...Edinburgh one night last week, a stocky, square-faced woman with a fiery glint in her eye strode determinedly into a performance of Sydney Goodsir Smith's The Wallace, one of the highlights of the Scottish capital's annual festival of music and drama. As the tale of Sir William Wallace's† wars with England ended and the orchestra broke into God Save the Queen, Scottish Nationalist Wendy Wood, 66. stayed in her seat and hissed. Then, while tweedy Englishmen and their sensibly shod wives, stared in amazement, Wendy led a scattering of supporters...
...Wallace's beheading in London in 1305, was a sharp reminder that despite 2½ centuries of union with England, Scotland's 5,169,000 people remain a proudly independent lot. The notion that the 1707 Act of Union that joined the two countries represented a Scottish surrender drives Scotsmen to distraction. "We whacked the Romans," they say, "and we whacked the English." And Scottish national pride, always touchy, has taken on a new tenderness since the crowning of Elizabeth II. who. the Scots insist, is only Elizabeth I to them. So many Scottish mailboxes bearing the official...
...their distinctive, Roman-influenced legal system, which features 15-man juries, permits the un-English verdict of "not proven"-meaning "we know you did it, but we haven't got enough to pin it on you." With justice, Scotsmen boast that their school system (which teaches the Scottish slant on British history) is superior to England's. The true Scot scorns such English institutions as cricket and fish and chips, preferring a hip-twisting Scottish reel and finnan haddie simmered in milk, which he compares to the finest French cuisine...
Takeover Bid. Only a relative handful of Scots sympathize with Wendy Wood's demand for complete Scottish autonomy; only once (1945) has a Scottish Nationalist been elected to Britain's Parliament. But all Scotsmen reserve the right to blame England for everything from Scotland's inordinate unemployment (3.1% in Scotland v. 1.4% for Britain as a whole) to its high rate of emigration (21,000 people last year) and occasional lapses from the stern Scottish morality. "Our illegitimacy rate," they enjoy pointing out, "is highest in those parts of the country that border England...