List of Scots

List of Scots is an incomplete list of notable people from Scotland.

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Architects and master masons

  • James Adam (1732–1794), son of William Adam
  • John Adam (1721–1792), eldest son of William Adam
  • Robert Adam (1728–1792)
  • William Adam (1689–1748), father of Robert; architect and builder
  • John Macvicar Anderson (1835–1915)
  • Robert Rowand Anderson (1834–1921)
  • George Ashdown Audsley (1838–1925), architect, artist, illustrator, writer, decorator and pipe organ designer
  • William James Audsley (1833-1907)
  • Ormrod Maxwell Ayrton FRIBA (1874–1960)
  • Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie (1900–1970), possibly the first woman to practise architecture in Scotland
  • John Begg (1866–1937), architect who practised in London, South Africa and India, and taught at Edinburgh College of Art
  • William Bryce Binnie (c. 1885 – c. 1963)
  • Alexander Black (c. 1790–1858)
  • Hippolyte Blanc (1844–1917)
  • James MacLellan Brown (c. 1886–1967), city architect of Dundee, designer of the Mills Observatory
  • Sir George Washington Browne (1853–1939)
  • Sir William Bruce (c. 1630–1710)
  • Scots

    Scots may refer to:

  • The Scottish people, those whose origin is in Scotland
  • The Scots language, spoken in Lowlands of Scotland (also known as "Lowland Scots" to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic)
  • Scotch-Irish
  • Scottish English
  • Scots pine, a conifer tree named after Scotland
  • Short for Pound Scots
  • For the Scots, an ethnic group of the late Iron age, the historical people of Dalriada, a Gaelic-speaking kingdom in northeastern Ireland and western Scotland, see Gaels and Scoti
  • Scots' Church, Melbourne
  • The Scots College (TSC or Scots), a private school in Sydney, Australia
  • Scot's Lo-Cost, a warehouse type Grocery store owned by Weis markets
  • SCOTS may refer to:

  • The abbreviated term for the Battalions of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
  • Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech, a linguistic resource
  • Southern Culture on the Skids, an American music group
  • See also

  • Scotch (disambiguation)
  • Scotts (disambiguation)
  • Scott's (disambiguation)
  • Scottish (disambiguation)
  • Scottish people

    The Scottish people (Scots: Scots Fowk, Scottish Gaelic: Albannaich), or Scots, are a nation and socially defined ethnic group resident in Scotland. Historically, they emerged from an amalgamation of two groups—the Picts and Gaels—who founded the Kingdom of Scotland (or Alba) in the 9th century, and thought to have been ethnolinguistically Celts. Later, the neighbouring Cumbrian Britons, who also spoke a Celtic language, as well as Germanic-speaking Anglo-Saxons and Norse, were incorporated into the Scottish nation.

    In modern use, "Scottish people" or "Scots" is used to refer to anyone whose linguistic, cultural, family ancestral or genetic origins are from within Scotland. The Latin word Scotti originally referred to the Gaels but came to describe all inhabitants of Scotland. Though sometimes considered archaic or pejorative, the term Scotch has also been used for the Scottish people, though this usage is current primarily outside Scotland.

    There are people of Scottish descent in many countries other than Scotland. Emigration, influenced by factors such as the Highland and Lowland Clearances, Scottish participation in the British Empire, and latterly industrial decline and unemployment, resulted in Scottish people being found throughout the world. Large populations of Scottish people settled the new-world lands of North and South America, Australia and New Zealand. There is a Scottish presence at a particularly high level in Canada, which has the highest level per-capita of Scots descendants in the world and second largest population of descended Scots ancestry after the United States. They took with them their Scottish languages and culture.

    Scots language

    Scots is the Anglic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots). It is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Celtic language which was historically restricted to most of the Highlands, the Hebrides and Galloway after the Middle Ages.

    Because there are no universally accepted criteria for distinguishing languages from dialects, scholars and other interested parties often disagree about the linguistic, historical and social status of Scots and particularly its relationship to English. Although a number of paradigms for distinguishing between languages and dialects do exist, these often render contradictory results. Broad Scots is at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum, with Scottish Standard English at the other. Scots is often regarded as one of the ancient varieties of English, yet it has its own distinct dialects. Alternatively, Scots is sometimes treated as a distinct Germanic language, in the way Norwegian is closely linked to, yet distinct from, Danish.

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    Southern Culture on the Skids

    ALBUMS

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    Rap Like Me

    by: Skyzoo

    [Verse 1: Skyzoo]
    Okay, rap-wise back mine
    Up to where I'm backed by
    Everyone you homage so I'm cutting through the back
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    That sidetracked mind smothering the stat line
    Truthfully my pen ain't been the same since Stack died
    That might be another reason to react, like
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    caught
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    That merged just to proven that I'm what they never saw
    Smell it through the bag, baby that's how we be
    peddling
    [Hook: Skyzoo] (x2)
    And they don't rap like me, and that might be
    The curse of all cursive, rap by the tree
    And the perfect beyond perfect, if that's what it be
    Then I word it beyond worded, I'm back to what it be
    [Verse 2: Skyzoo]
    Blue and orange everything, clearly what I'm repping
    And the pressure that come with it like I'm wearing
    number seven
    So I'm 39-10 if you should dare to disrespect it
    Good money from the corner, put your ear to where the
    net is
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    net is
    Three meanings at once, and should clearly try to catch
    See that how you want, so you hear it how I sketch it
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    They don't do it like, spew it like
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