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From: lindsay@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.celtic
Subject: Re: Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!
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Date: Wed, 15-Oct-86 05:19:15 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 15 05:19:15 1986
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Just so that everyone is satisfied :

		The Canonical Scotch List
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Scotch attorney		A climber that strangles trees (clusia)
Scotch barley		Pot or hulled barley
Scotch blubell		the harebell
Scotch bonnet		A round flat blue woolen cap with a tuft on the top
			The fairy ring mushroom

Scotch broth		A broth made with pot barley and plenty of various 
			  vegetables, chopped small.
Scotch cart		A strong, springless, two-wheeled uncovered farm cart
			  with one shaft.
Scotch catch or snap	A short accented note followed by a longer - not
			  peculiar to Scottish music
Scotch collops		Minced beef (sometimes called scotched collops)
Scotch curlies		A variety of kale
Scotch draper		An itinerant dealer differing from pedlar in not
			  carrying his goods about with him
Scotch egg		Hard boiled egg cut in two and enclosed in sausage
			  meat.
Scotch elm		The wych elm (ulmus montana), sometimes the common
			  English elm (u. Campetris)
Scotch fiddle		The itch (fom the movements of the fingers it excited)
Scotch fir		Scots Pine
Sotch hand		A wooden bat for manipulating butter
Scotch kale		A variety of kale
Scotch love		A relationship in which people argue rather than show
			  affection. 
Scotch mist		A fine rain
Scotch pebble		An agate or similar stone
Scotch rose		The burnet rose (rosa spinosissima)
Scotch terrier		A roughhired, prick-eared, strongly built little dog
Scotch thistle		The cotton thistle, national emblem of Scotland
			  (not native)
Scotch verdict		Not proven
Scotch whisky		Scotch whisky
Scotch woodcock		Egg and anchovies on toast


Note that S attorney is West Indian and S cart is South African.

Hope you're all happy now

Lindsay