22-08-2021, 22:10
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Trollsplatter
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Re: Will Scotland Leave the UK?
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
You're going in hard on a very minor point. I am not a Scot so I can be forgiven for using the dictionary definition of "Scot".
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Scot - the other dictionaries say the same thing.
Please allow me to put a question back to you. Would the average reader in this thread have reached a different conclusion had I used a different term from "Scots", or your preferred term now that you know what I meant by it?
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Multiple dictionaries of British English disagree with you.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/di...y/english/scot
https://www.lexico.com/definition/scot
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dic...sh/scot?q=Scot
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