Auld Enemies : The Scots and the English

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• ISBN13: 9781841582436
• ISBN10: 1841582433
• Edition: Illus.
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

Summary

Sharp and funny verbal record of the centuries-old Scottish-English insult-humor war.

Author Biography

David Ross is the author of numerous books on Scottish history and culture, including Scottish Quotations and From Scenes Like These: Scottish Anecdotes and Episodes, both published by Birlinn. Originally from Dingwall, he was educated at St Andrews and currently lives near Hereford.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
The Anglo-Scots	1	(1)
An Awful Truth	2	(8)
Some Aspects of Englishnes
The Bumptious Englishman	3	(3)
The English Intellectual	6	(1)
The Cool Englishman	7	(1)
The Formal Englishman	8	(1)
The Mean-Spirited Englishman	8	(2)
The Riotous English	10	(1)
The Ruthless Englishman	10	(1)
The Canny Scot	10	(3)
The Clever Scot . . . and the Stupid Englishman	13	(5)
Interchangeable Jokes	18	(1)
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes	18	(2)
Caledonian Attitudes	20	(1)
Versions of History	21	(3)
Generalities from Both Sides of the Border	24	(10)
Out of the Mouths of Babes	34	(3)
The Scots in England	37	(3)
The English in Scotland	40	(1)
An Observer of the Scots: Sydney Smith	41	(1)
An Observer of the English: A.G. Macdonnell	42	(2)
Anglo-Scottish Exchanges	44	(1)
The Union of the Crowns	45	(2)
Two Short Notes on Culture	47	(1)
Dress	47	(4)
Food and Drink	51	(4)
A Stushie between Historians	55	(1)
Hygiene	56	(1)
The Intolerable Sense of Superiority of the English	57	(1)
The Intolerable Sense of Superiority of the Scots	58	(1)
Mr Boswell's Bear	58	(2)
Jungle Tale	60	(1)
Literary Flurries	61	(1)
London Scots	62	(1)
Lords a-Leaping	63	(1)
More Observers of the English: A Small Stir	64	(1)
Music	64	(2)
Name-Calling	66	(3)
Old Wars, and Battles Long Ago	69	(8)
Newer Wars	77	(1)
A Question of Identity	78	(1)
Religion	79	(2)
The Rough Scot	81	(1)
A Would-Be Scourge of the Scots: The Unspeakable Scot	82	(1)
Sex	83	(2)
Speech	85	(4)
Sport	89	(5)
The Stingy Scot	94	(3)
Treachery	97	(3)
Some Reflections on the Union	100	(2)
Women	102	(3)
Afterword	105	(2)
Index of Names	107
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