Word: scottishly
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...Porridge is a Scottish dish,' I said, 'not Welsh...
...deal more like baseball's free agent wars than one of the most unusual swaps in international business. A Scottish-born U.S. investment banker signed a contract to run one of England's largest government-owned companies. In return, the New York firm he is leaving will be compensated by receiving up to $4.1 million. Members of Parliament denounced the indemnity plan as "monstrous" and "farcical." One M.P. compared it to something straight out of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta...
...MacGregor venturing into the quagmire of Britain's aged, failing, government-controlled heavy manufacturing industries? Despite his new nationality, he has maintained close ties to his homeland as the owner of a Scottish country home, where he frequently vacations. He also says that he has an "emotional attachment" to the steel industry, where he received early training. And as one associate observed, "If he does well, he could get the reward of rewards and be knighted." As an American citizen, he can receive only an honorary dubbing. And before any future laurels, MacGregor will have some difficult work...
...crown, he is himself beset by usurpers. The Percy family, which helped him to the throne, has learned too well the lesson of rebellion. The firebrand of the family, young Hotspur, refuses to accede to the new king's demands for prisoners captured in a conflict along the Scottish border. The result is the civil war between Henry and his former allies that provides the basic plot for both parts of Henry...
...Many Scottish staples date back to the Vikings, who are believed to have introduced Aberdeen Angus cattle as well as curing and salting techniques-whence such delicacies as kippers, smoked salmon and mutton ham. However, there is a regal and Continental tang to the best of Scottish food, traceable to the nation's French connection, the "Auld Alliance" that began with the marriage of Scotland's King James V to Mary of Guise-Lorraine in 1538. Like a fogbound Catherine de Medicis, she arrived at Holyrood with chefs, recipes, wines, liqueurs, desserts and other Gallic trappings then unknown...