{"id":1891,"date":"2004-04-02T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-02T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2004-04-02T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-02T21:07:00","slug":"terms-of-endearment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/04\/02\/17\/07\/terms-of-endearment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Terms Of Endearment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scots<\/a> 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<\/a> originally came from Northern Ireland in the 6th century, invaded Pictland and renamed it Scotland or Alba<\/a>, then were transplanted back to Northern Ireland<\/a> beginning in the 17th century and, accelerated by the ethnic cleansing outrages of the Lowland<\/a> and Highland<\/a> 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t