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Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Scotch, and proud of it

Didn't I say Canadians love their Scotch. It would seem the incorrigible traditionalist, David Warren, just can't get enough of it either:

"It has become dangerous to use the word “Scotch” in this country, as I’ve learnt to my cost. Every time I do it, I get a bunch of letters from smart people, telling me that, if not referring to whisky, my choice of adjectives is necessarily limited to “Scots”, “Scottish”, or at a stretch, “Caledonian”. This is because, I fear, the Scotch are a shrinking part of Canada’s social fabric. A diminishing number know that among the meanings of the word “Scotch” is, “deeply-rooted Scottish-Canadian”.

Were I referring to the current inmates of Scotland itself, or recent immigrants therefrom, I would call them Scottish. But in speaking of the “Scotch” I refer to my own race, on my mother’s side. We were once, and may by the grace of God still be, Canada’s third largest ethnic constituency, after English and French (counting original Highlanders, Lowlanders, and the Scotch-Irish together). But our assimilation is so far advanced, that the Gaelic language has almost disappeared."...

(My Scots ancestors also referred to themselves as Scotch. They themselves wrote their nationality as "Scotch" on all the official documents and migration papers I could find, so I don't buy this nonsense that it somehow doesn't meet the standards of political correctude. But I had no idea that "Scotch" was a particular Canadianism on the Scottishness developed here.)

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