Category: English people of Scottish descent

In 1255 an interview between the English and Scottish kings at Kelso led to Menteith and his party losing to Durward's party.

* 1640 – Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.

Rhoticity was further supported by Hiberno-English, West Country English and Scottish English as well as the fact most regions of England at this time also had rhotic accents.

* 1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London where he is put on trial and executed.

* 1388 – The Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England, is fought near Otterburn.

* 1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scots army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.

* Saundra English, Scottish

In the Scottish borders country, a system of beacon fires were at one time established to warn of incursions by the English.

The breast spelling conforms to the Scottish and North English dialectal pronunciations.

" Boudica has also been the primary subject of songs by Irish singer / songwriter Enya, Dutch soprano Petra Berger, Scottish singer / songwriter Steve McDonald, English metal band Bal-Sagoth, Faith and the Muse and Dreams in the Witching House.

Years after Wallace's death, Robert the Bruce, now Scotland's king, leads a Scottish army before a ceremonial line of English troops on the fields of Bannockburn where he is to formally accept English rule.

In addition to English being the film's primary language, French, Latin, and Scottish Gaelic are also spoken.

Since Child died before writing a commentary on his work it is uncertain exactly how and why he differentiated the 305 ballads printed that would be published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads.

The British Army came into being with the merger of the Scottish Army and the English Army, following the unification of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, as the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707.

The new British Army incorporated existing English and Scottish regiments, and was controlled from London.

Between then and 1764, when a more formal revised version was published, a number of things happened which were to separate the Scottish Episcopal liturgy more firmly from either the English books of 1549 or 1559.

These styles are known because of the importance of Irish and Scottish people in the English speaking world, especially in the United States, where they had a profound impact on American music, particularly bluegrass and country music.

The oldest musical tradition which fits under the label of Celtic fusion originated in the rural American south in the early colonial period and incorporated Scottish, Scots-Irish, Irish, English, and African influences.

Islanders ' accents retain elements passed down from English, Scottish, and Welsh settlers ( among others ) in a language variety known as Cayman Creole.

One role of the Swedish central bank was lending to the government, which was likewise true of the Bank of England, created in 1694 by Scottish businessman William Paterson in the City of London at the request of the English government to help pay for a war.

The island's residents can be grouped into five main cultures ; Scottish, Mi ' kmaq, Acadian, Irish, and English, with respective languages Gaelic ( Scottish and Irish ), Mi ' kmaq, French, and English.

" Also, in late 1941 Popular Mechanics had an article in which a U. S. scientist speculated about the British early warning system on the English east coast and came close to what it was and how it worked.

Primitivism and the Idea of Progress in English Popular Literature of the Eighteenth Century.

* Francis James Child collected fourteen variants in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, but the summary of Child Ballad 39A is considered to be the earliest ( Another Child ballad, Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane has no connection with this ballad except for the similarity of the heroes ' names.

Popular English language experts such as Richard Lederer and Barbara Wallraff have noted sniglets in their books, The Miracle of Language and Word Court: Wherein Verbal Virtue Is Rewarded, Crimes Against the Language Are Punished, and Poetic Justice Is Done respectively.

Professor Carberry also appeared in an American Express commercial in the 1970s .< ref >; his position and institutional affiliation are given as " Professor of English, Brown University at San Diego ", and the paper is claimed to be a reprint from The Journal of Popular Culture.

Popular ancestries of the population include Portuguese ( 22. 0 %), Irish ( 21. 4 %), English ( 16. 7 %), French ( 14. 4 %), Italian ( 11. 9 %) and French Canadian ( 6. 4 %).

His best selling work, La psychologie des foules ( 1895 ; English translation The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, 1896 ), was published soon afterward.

The song was also included on A. L. Lloyd's 1955 album The English And Scottish Popular Ballads, using Kidson's melody, but the version using the melody later developed by Simon & Garfunkel in " Scarborough Fair / Canticle " was first recorded on a 1956 album, English Folk Songs, by Audrey Coppard.

German English Words: A Popular Dictionary of German Words Used in English.

Child's monumental final collection was published postumously as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, at first in ten parts ( 1882 – 1898 ) and then in five quarto volumes, and for a long time was the authoritative treasury of their subject.

It may not be Child ’ s " final statement " that we all wish he had lived to make, but it comes close in many ways, and nicely compliments the original Introduction to the 1880 ’ s English and Scottish Popular Ballads made by Child ’ s successor, George Lyman Kittredge ( retained in this volume ).

Child's Unfinished Masterpiece: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads.

Review of Mark and Laura F. Heinman's, Corrected Second Edition of Francis James Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, volume 1, in Musical Traditions internet magazine, May 14, 2002.

Popular Hawaiian music with English verse ( hapa haole ) can be described in a narrow sense.

Popular entertainment became more important in this period than ever before, with fair-booth burlesque and mixed forms that are the ancestors of the English music hall.

Popular Korean music, typically referred to as K-pop in English, or gayo ( 가요 ) in Korean, is a highly commercial industry throughout Asia.

The same story pattern appears in numerous other cultures: Tom Tit Tot in England ( from English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs ), Whuppity Stoorie in Scotland ( from Robert Chambers's Popular Rhymes of Scotland ), Gilitrutt in Iceland, Joaidane جعيدان in Arabic ( he who talks too much ), Khlamushka Хламушка ( junker ) in Russia, Rampelnik in Czech Republic, Martinko Klingáč in Slovakia, Ruidoquedito ( meaning " little noise ") in South America, Pancimanci in Hungary ( from A Csodafurulya by Kolozsvari Grandpierre Emil ), Cvilidreta ( whine-screamer ) in Croatia, Tremotino in Italy, Ootz-li Gootz-li עו ּ ץ-לי גו ּ ץ-לי in Israel ( a compact and rhymy touch to the original sentence and meaning of the story, " He advised me and then turned me into a joke "), Daiku to Oniroku ( daiku means " a carpenter ", to means " and ", and Oniroku is an ogre's name ), or " 大工と鬼六 " in Japan.

Forster published the work separately in 1840 with a Treatise on the Popular Progress in English History.

Francis James Child's ( 1825 – 96 ) eight volume collection The English and Scottish Popular Ballads ( 1882 – 92 ) became the most influential in defining the repertoire of subsequent performers and Cecil Sharp ( 1859 – 1924 ), founder of the English Folk Dance Society, was probably the most important figure in understanding of the nature of folk song.

Border ballads were a major part of those collected by Francis James Child and make up most of the sixth volume of his ten volume collection of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads ( 1882 – 98 ).

* Popular Liberation Army ( Colombia ) in English, the Ejército Popular de Liberación, a Colombian guerrilla group