Wha's Like Us? (Say It in Scots!)

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And his appeal to his countrymen "to see oorselves as ithers see us" helped fuel that numbing self-consciousness and personal insecurity that afflicts so many Scots today. The Doric dialect, as it happens, is named after the Greek area, apparently because the Scots were being compared to Spartans. It is probably the reason that the first thing many emigrating Scots do on landing abroad is to join the local Caledonian Society.

Many people add greetings with a Scottish flavour at the end of their e-mails (and paper messages too). Eventually he goes under anaesthetic, which was developed by Sir James Young Simpson of Bathgate, Scotland.Scottish toasts can be whipped out at any social occasion where a dram is being shared among friends, although the most fitting moment is at a Burns’ Night supper – an evening devoted to celebrating the life and lyrics of Scotland’s most famous poet. If he escapes death, he might then find himself on an operating table injected with penicillin, which was discovered by Alexander Fleming of Darvel, Scotland. At the top you see the end of a “Useful Phrases” section, including such as “Ye’d maak a better door nor a windae,” dryly translated as “Excuse me, please. And just where, on a positive-negative sliding scale, should we place that belligerent toast which will be so widely uttered tomorrow night, as we fluctuate between alcoholic epiphany and hitting the gutter: "Here's tae us; wha's like us?

My problem is that it is plain wrong in places and quite out of date as it certainly doesn’t go far enough in proclaiming Scottish genius. used to emphasise a person's physical or mental state or situation; (2) here's tae us; wha's like us?

JK Rowling wrote all of her Harry Potter novels while living in Scotland, and still lives in Edinburgh. HE turns to the sport channels and watches curling, a sport devised in Scotland, and takes in some track and field sports including the shot put and hammer throw, both derived from Highland Games.