Terms Of Endearment

Scots is surely one of the few Anglo-Saxon dialects where “ye daft wee cunt” is actually a term of fond endearment. In passing, I note that the Scots originally came from Northern Ireland in the 6th century, invaded Pictland and renamed it Scotland or Alba, then were transplanted back to Northern Ireland beginning in the 17th century and, accelerated by the ethnic cleansing outrages of the Lowland and Highland Clearances, formed a huge percentage of the population of the pre-Revolutionary North American Colonies, especially in the western frontiers. Their hostility to attempts by English landlords to exercise their land grant rights in North America provided the anti-British rebels in North America with early and crucial support.