He was proud of his Highland ancestryhis enduring nickname, Ming, came from, the Scots – and his own preferred – pronunciation of Menzies.

The initial letter is the Middle Scots letter, " yogh ", the pronunciation of which is almost identical to the original Norn sound, "".

A number of pronunciation features set Scots apart from neighbouring English dialects.

The Scots pronunciation of come contrasts with in Northern English.

The stress placement is Gaelic, too, but the first part of the name may have been influenced by its Scots / English counterpart in both pronunciation and spelling, not just reduced ; cf.

Many non-standard dialects such as Scots and Northumbrian English have retained features of Old English in vocabulary and pronunciation.

National Library of Scotland It is unlikely, though, that this community took its name from King Edward I of England, The Hammer of the Scots, even though Edward travelled twice to this area to demonstrate his grip over the country ; the most likely explanation is that the early cartographers took the local pronunciation of Kinneddar as King Edward and recorded it as such.

This pronunciation is also used in Scots.

Lowland Scots speakers in their turn have variously described the island as " Mewla " or " Miuley " ( which are both approximations of the Gaelic pronunciation ), " Megaly " and " Micklay " before finally settling on the current variant.

* Ming ( the Merciless )-Sir Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia ( perhaps from Scots pronunciation of surname, " Mingiss ")

* ano, " I know " in Scots pronunciation

Breeks is a Scots or northern English spelling and pronunciation.

* wh is realised, rather than as in Central Scots dialects, for example whit ( what ) and wha ( who ), often written fit and fa ( a ) in dialect writing.

* 1542 – Princess Mary Stuart becomes Mary, Queen of Scots.

* December 14 – Queen Mary, Queen of Scots, becomes queen at the age of only one week.

* Kenneth I ( Cináed mac Ailpín ), King of the Scots, also becomes King of the Picts, thus becoming the first monarch of the new nation of Scotland.

James's son, the Duke of Rothesay, becomes James V, King of Scots.

* March 25 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of the Scots only five weeks after the murder in Dumfries.

She becomes pregnant by the Queen's husband, the King of Scots, which results in the birth of a baby.

They include members of the Scott clan -- Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch, his wife, Janet Beaton, and his son William Scott of Kincurd, who becomes Lymond's second-in-command in his band of outlaws ; Mary of Guise, the Queen Dowager of Scotland and her young daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots ; and members of the Douglas family — including Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, his brother Sir George Douglas, his daughter Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox ( niece of Henry VIII who was the brother of Margaret's mother Margaret Tudor, widow of James IV, and mother of James V ), and Margaret's husband Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, a potential claimant to the Scottish throne in case of the death of the young Mary, Queen of Scots.

In several Scots and in Northern Middle English folkoric ballads, Álfheim was known in as Elphame or Elfhame.

But John having died, the Pope and the English aristocracy changed their allegiance to his nine-year-old son, Henry, forcing the French and the Scots armies to return home.

* 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.

The-dour element, referring to the Burn, means simply ' water ' ( archaic dobur ), and is unconnected to the Scots / English ' dour '.

The initial Lions selection consisted of fourteen Irish players, thirteen Welsh, eight English and two Scots in the 37-man squad.

The French cavalry exerted themselves once more against the first line – Lumley's English and Scots on the Allied left, and Hompesch's Dutch and German squadrons on the Allied right.

Wallace rebels against the English, and as his legend spreads, hundreds of Scots from the surrounding clans join him.

Leading the English army himself, Longshanks confronts the Scots at the Battle of Falkirk where noblemen Lochlan and Mornay betray Wallace.

He then leads his army into battle against the stunned English, winning the Scots their freedom.

For example ; burgh in Scots and Middle English ; burg in German and Old English, borg in Scandinavian languages ; parcus in Latin and pyrgos in Greek.

In 1557, the Scots Protestant lords had adopted the English Prayer Book of 1552, for reformed worship in Scotland.

Lesser migrations of Scandinavians, Portuguese, Greeks, Italians, Spanish, Polish, Scots, English, Jews, Russians and Irish immigrants also contributed to this ethnic mix.

Examples of cognates in Indo-European languages are the words night ( English ), nuit ( French ), Nacht ( German ), nacht ( Dutch ), nag ( Afrikaans ), nicht ( Scots ), natt ( Swedish, Norwegian ), nat ( Danish ), nátt ( Faroese ), nótt ( Icelandic ), noc ( Czech, Slovak, Polish ), ночь, noch ( Russian ), ноќ, noć ( Macedonian ), нощ, nosht ( Bulgarian ), ніч, nich ( Ukrainian ), ноч, noch / noč ( Belarusian ), noč ( Slovene ), noć ( Serbo-Croatian ), νύξ, nyx ( Ancient Greek, νύχτα / nyhta in Modern Greek ), nox ( Latin ), nakt-( Sanskrit ), natë ( Albanian ), noche ( Spanish ), nos ( Welsh ), nueche ( Asturian ), noite ( Portuguese and Galician ), notte ( Italian ), nit ( Catalan ), noapte ( Romanian ), nakts ( Latvian ) and naktis ( Lithuanian ), all meaning " night " and derived from the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ), " night ".

Another Indo-European example is star ( English ), str-( Sanskrit ), tara ( Hindi-Urdu ), étoile ( French ), ἀστήρ ( astēr ) ( Greek or ἀστέρι / ἄστρο, asteri / astro in Modern Greek ), stella ( Italian ), aster ( Latin ) stea ( Romanian and Venetian ), stairno ( Gothic ), astl ( Armenian ), Stern ( German ), ster ( Dutch and Afrikaans ), starn ( Scots ), stjerne ( Norwegian and Danish ), stjarna ( Icelandic ), stjärna ( Swedish ), stjørna ( Faroese ), setāre ( Persian ), stoorei ( Pashto ), seren ( Welsh ), steren ( Cornish ), estel ( Catalan ), estrella Spanish, estrella Asturian and Leonese, estrela ( Portuguese and Galician ) and estêre or stêrk ( Kurdish ), from the PIE, " star ".

The verbal noun curling is formed from the Scots ( and English ) verb curl, which describes the motion of the stone.

Seven years later the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says: plundered the English as far as the river Tees, and he seized a multitude of people and many herds of cattle: and the Scots called this the raid of Albidosorum, that is, Nainndisi.

For Scotland he used different arguments, even the opposite of those he used in England, for example, usually ignoring the English doctrine of the Sovereignty of Parliament, telling the Scots that they could have complete confidence in the guarantees in the Treaty.

The Pope heeded the arguments contained in the Declaration, influenced by the offer of support from the Scots for his long-desired crusade if they no longer had to fear English invasion.

He exhorted Edward II in a letter to make peace with the Scots, but the following year was again persuaded by the English to take their side and issued six bulls to that effect.

In English, the terms poniard and dirk are loaned during the late 16th to early 17th century, the latter in the spelling dork, durk ( presumably via Low German, Dutch or Scandinavian dolk, dolch, ultimately from a West Slavic tulich ), the modern spelling dirk dating to 18th-century Scots.

The Scots textbooks of the divine right of kings were written in 1597-98 by James VI of Scotland before his accession to the English throne.

Successively, the word elf, as well as literary term fairy, evolved to a general denotation of various nature spirits like Puck, hobgoblins, Robin Goodfellow, the English and Scots brownie, the Northumbrian English hob and so forth.

She feared that the French planned to invade England and put Mary, Queen of Scots, who was considered by many to be the heir to the English crown, on the throne.