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From: lindsay@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.celtic
Subject: Re: grooving with a pict
Message-ID: <1041@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 08:56:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 25 08:56:33 1986
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In article <4035@brl-smoke.ARPA> floyd@brl.arpa (Floyd C. Wofford (MMW) <floyd>) writes:
>A pict or Pict is a Scottish soldier.

Please tell me you are not serious when you say this!!!

	Pict, \fIpikt, n.\fR one of an ancient people of obscure
	affinities, in Britain, esp. north-eastern Scotland: in Scottish
	folklore, one of a dwarfish race of underground dwellers to whom
	(with the Romans, the druids, and Cromwell) ancient monuments are
	generally attributed: Steele's term for a painted woman.

>It is possible that the accent might be some garbled Scotch.
						      ^^^^^^

Eggs, whisky or mist only please. You mean Scots or Scottish, and yes I
DO know that Walter Scott used the term and that it was perfectly
acceptable in Victorian times. It is, however, no longer acceptable to
the majority of Scots.

Lindsay