Terry;

Now to aggravate others with historic facts. The Scots and Welsh are members of the Irish tribes. It is considered derogatory to call a Scot “Scotch”, like the drink.

I once worked with a man whose last name was Jones. He had red hair and was Irish. A cousin of mine was named Peter Christopher Yorke, a Catholic Priest. The family name was originally Jorge, from Holland. Lots of people from Holland settled in Galway. Danes settled in Dublin, etc.

You find a number of people settled Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. Anglo, Saxon, Norman, Celtic and that is not accounting for the people who occupied the British Isles before others came to join them.

A storm sent the Spanish Armada to the shores of Cork, Ireland, and today more than 400 years later, the descendants of these men are known as “Black Irish”. Richard Nixon was “Black Irish”. It is interesting that historians trace the origins of the Celtic tribes to Galicia, Spain. Even today in Galicia, folk music may use a bagpipe – the same type used in Ireland. The bagpipe used by the Scots is much more developed.

As for me I have an English name and I am Irish, Scot, English and Polish. You may never know everything about someone’s ancestry by his/her last name.

Tom






>Scottish is British
>English is British
>Scottish is not English
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>They're trwo separate countries which, along with the principality of Wales, and province of Ulster (N. Ireland), make up Great Britain, or the United Kingdom.
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>So, I'm afraid, if you didn't know that, you're as Scottish as Welsh lamb. :-)
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>PS I'm so glad you didn't say "I'm Scotch". I would have said you don't have a particularly Scottish name, Smith, but I once had a Scottish girlfriend, from Glasgow, with that name.
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>>Is British not the same as Scottish?
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>>I'm scottish but i must admit I dont like to be tied to anything "English". So I reject the title "British".
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>>And to answer your question: "for"