{"id":53791,"date":"2017-01-07T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=53791"},"modified":"2017-01-07T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T22:55:00","slug":"scots-and-british-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=53791","title":{"rendered":"Scots and British values"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — Scots by clan, audibly British to American ears, and American by friendship, long residence, and weather preference ]
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Here’s a pair of tweets I picked out to comment on a while back, when writing was a lot more effort than is is now — and will hopefully be in the near future. The second is pretty obviously a serpent-bites-tail example, but I suspect “haggis” and “Scottish” are close enough conceptually (staggeringly close) to qualify the first as a serpentine loop too — why else would Rifkind <\/strong>have mentioned the Scottishness of the fiver? <\/p>\n

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Man in North London butcher just turned down my Scottish fiver when I was literally buying a haggis with it. This is a new low.<\/p>\n

— Hugo Rifkind (@hugorifkind) December 23, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n