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Scots refers to a language that is closely related to English and is spoken in some parts of Scotland.

Scots

(= Scottish, Scotch) of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language Scots Gaelic the Scots community in New York 'Scottish' tends to be the more formal term as in 'The Scottish Symphony' or 'Scottish authors' or 'Scottish mountains' 'Scotch' is in disfavor with Scottish people and is used primarily outside Scotland except in such frozen phrases as 'Scotch broth' or 'Scotch whiskey' or 'Scotch plaid' (= Scottish) the dialect of English used in Scotland

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Simple sentences

Do Scots have their own language?
Tom is Scottish, but he doesn't speak Scots.

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When not fighting the French, the English fought the Welsh, the Scots and the Irish. or themselves.
Scots, wae hae wi' Wallace bled.
Bah! And the Scots captain, Captain Jamy, with him.
Scots should be tried in Scotland. Macgregor and all the rest.
There's literally none of the good scots left in your speech And none at all in your heart.
Two Scots, one water, one soda.
The Queen of Scots who is still Queen Elizabeth's prisoner would be a more tractable ally, If Queen Elizabeth were no longer on the throne.
You will also convey our sympathy and encouragement to the captive Queen of Scots, through the usual channel.
I hear her Majesty wishes you to carry a letter to the Queen of Scots.
How to free the Queen of Scots from her prison, while we strike at Elizabeth.
Tutbury, where the Queen of Scots?
We've intercepted a letter from the Spaniards to the Queen of Scots with a plan to assassinate Her Majesty during this royal progress through the country.
With a letter from Her Majesty to the Queen of Scots.
The Queen of Scots has escaped!
Presented for valor by Mary Queen of Scots to your great-great-great-great- great-great-grandfather.
Those Scots, they take the fee and refuse to job.
Scots. are different.
Scots.
He came to us by way of the Scots Guards, but he's our best engineer.
You're a French police officer and yet you have a Scots accent.
The giant Redwood, the larch, the fir, the mighty Scots pine.
But Angus, you ken full well that Scots folk don't know how to play the tennis to save their lives.
Peter West and Brian Johnston star in 'Rain Stopped Play', a whacky new comedy series about the gay exploits of 2 television cricket commentators with E. W. Swanton as Aggie the kooky Scots maid.
The death of mary queen of scots.
You are mary queen of scots?
Episode two of the death of mary queen of scots can be heard on radio 4 almost immediately.
That was episode 2 of the death of mary queen of scots adapted for the radio by bernard hollowood and brian london.
The Scots have assembled on our border.
Here he comes; and the Scots captain, Captain Jamy, with him.
Took Minnie Fraser, the Scots piece out of Fielding Street.
Even your dour Scots lassies must have played piggy-back.
I'm not a Scots, but can I sign?
Well you lost his Scots accent in the processing.
The giant redwood, the larch, the fir, the mighty scots pine.
The Scots have assembled and army on our border.
First the Irish and now the Scots.
To put an effective army in the field against the Scots will cost almost a million pounds.
You know, as I do, that even as we sit here, the Scots rebels are invading this land and not an English sword is raised against them.
The Scots invade our land and all is urgency and alarm.
By my guard, I would as soon take up arms against Rome than against the Scots.
If we can hold on here in Oxford for six weeks, the Scots have promised an army of 20,000 men.

News and current affairs

Is there really that much reason why the Scots and Welsh should be part of the same national state as the English?
Why do Piemontese, Bavarians, or Scots need intermediate national bureaucracies to run their tax policies, welfare programs, securities laws, and the largely useless, duplicative armies?
But where were the Scots from?
Basques, Catalans, Walloons, Scots, Bretons, etc. are no less regionalist today than yesterday.
UK political leaders and many European governments are strongly urging the Scots to vote against independence.
The betting is that the Scots will vote to remain.
If the Scots want sovereignty, they will need their own currency - and their own central bank: no British lender of last resort would be available to Scotland's banks.
Corsicans would love to be rid of France, and many Scots of Britain.
Why rely on London, say the Scots, if Brussels offers greater advantages.
The Parliament at Westminster, to which Scots continue to elect MP's, still controls defense and foreign affairs, macroeconomic policy, taxation, and social security.
For most Scots, however, the Irish experience is not an appealing model - perhaps because it is associated with terrorism.
In this respect, Scotland differs from Wales, which was forcibly incorporated into England more than 400 years before the Scots signed the voluntary Act of Union in 1707.
Equally, it is now far harder for Scots to blame a distant government in London for their problems, although the SNP will now try to make blaming Westminster for all ills even more of an art form.
The Scots have been part of the British state for more than 300 years, at the heart of the Protestant, imperial, adventuring, outward-looking culture that forged Britain's identity.
Like the Catalans or the Scots, the Kurds in Turkey are in favor of EU membership, because it offers a refuge from their own country's majority.
The Scots would almost certainly want to break away from England and rejoin the EU as an independent member, giving further encouragement (as if that were needed) to separatists in Catalonia and other frustrated European regions.
This vision was undoubtedly appealing to many Scots.

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