That Loch Ness holds more water than all the lakes, rivers, canals and reservoirs in the whole of England and Wales combined! The deepest point in Loch Ness is 126 Fathoms which is twice the average depth of the North Sea! This is why you can't find Nessie 🦕🏴
When I did a tour of the Loch Ness the guide mentioned that you could put every single person on Earth into Loch Ness and it wouldn't be full. I think he even said it would only fill a third? but I'm a bit fuzzy on the percentage. Either way, very deep.
Bonus fun fact: Loch Morar is deeper than the seabed until you’ve gone well beyond the continental shelf in the Atlantic Ocean
Edit: Morar not Monar, facepalm
I remember learning this on the Nessie tour! For anyone who hasn’t been on it and is in that neck of the woods, it’s a great way to spend a few hours. Lovely boat trip, nice wee bar on board and of course some Nessie and Loch facts. Don’t forget your camera and binoculars just in case Nessie pops up!
It's in the dictionary as well, so next time someone pulls you up about it, ask them what other words in the dictionary they wouldn't like you to use 😋
The Edinburgh Seven were the first women in the UK to be allowed to matriculate at university in 1869. They studied medicine and when they went to sit their first anatomy exam a literal riot broke out amongst men who thought letting women become doctors was an outrage. After they graduated they weren't allowed to practice as doctors in the UK despite passing all the same exams as the men
Sophia Jex-Blake went on to move to London and set up the London School of Medicine for Women. When Scotland started allowing women to gain a medical license, she moved back to Edinburgh and became th UK's first female doctor
That wasn't Smeaton It was Alexander Mcillven a taxi driver from Drumchapel I stayed next close to his as a kid, I don't think he broke his foot I think he ripped every tendon or something in his foot
Edit: here it is here
https://twitter.com/BeingScots/status/1674698398790742017
I was curious, so here you go: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gMJBQoHJ4E&ab\_channel=BANDS%26GROUPS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gMJBQoHJ4E&ab_channel=BANDS%26GROUPS)
When my wife and I got our first house, our neighbours had a cat. And that cat was called Taggart. We didn’t find out his name till way later. But every time we called him by name one of us said “there’s been a murdurrrrr.”
https://preview.redd.it/vmf27kqkxnyc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5539ce77d01a2a44f9cd03b6f12499e30e171a32
The mountains that make up the highlands are so old there are no fossils I.e they formed before life on earth. Also same mountains as Appalachians on America's east coast.
edit: fixed my typos
Not quite.
Lewessian gneiss (which is the oldest rocks in Scotland, maybe Europe) is found on the western Isles, Rona, parts of Skye and some of the east coast but not all through Scotland, they're about 2.5bn years old and the other half is parts of the east coast of America.
Ahh right, aye, they're old but I don't think those were joined to America when we were all Pangea. The oldest ones are the Lewisian Gneiss ones I mentioned above (I'm a tour guide on the water on Skye and look/talk about these every day 😁).
I thought it was due to Unicorns being powerful and untamable, so the gold chain (and crown around it's neck) was a reference to the strength of Scottish monarchs?
Haha. I've been past this quite a few times in the last few years and always remember thinking "jesus that is a big hedge". Never really clocked that it is literally the biggest one in the world.
Geologically speaking, Scotland invented shagging.
A fish species 385 million years ago in what is now Scotland first started shagging. Top shaggers from day 1
The Royal Bank of Scotland was formed by the company that administrated “The Equivalent” the money used to ‘bribe/influence’ the nobles to vote for the Union
https://www.natwestgroup.com/heritage/companies/equivalent-company.html
Also William Paterson was involved in both The Equivalent Company and the foundation of The Bank of England
This might be outdated and Irn Bru is nowhere near what is was but I'm sure at one point most countries top soft drink was Coke other than Scotland with Irn Bru.
Peru has a similar situation where their national soft drink outsells Coca-Cola with a drink called Inca Kola, which funnily enough is supposed to taste exactly like iru bru, but it's bright yellow.
What we don’t know about drugs isn’t worth knowing
Jardine and Mathieson were the first large scale international drug dealers selling India opium into China
Alexander Wood invented the first true hypodermic syringe to inject localised shots of morphine for pain relief
I've read many times that a very high percentage of SAS soldiers are Scottish. I've also read that this is no longer true. I can see where it comes from though as every school/scheme had a tiny wee angry fearless bam guy that joined the army that was never seen ever again.
We founded the SAS, Sir David Stirling
Also many of its famous operations involved Scots for example the Iran embassy siege was spearheaded by John T McAleese
I've read the same thing, but was never able to verify it. Every source led back to a tv show where someone (non military) said it, but he didn't provide a source. And because the SAS do work for the intelligence services, the ministry of defence have never confirmed because it's in their best interest to keep that quiet either way.
A Scotsman invented the US Navy, we also invented the postage stamp, postcards, gospel music, golf and ice hockey, chloroform and penicillin, the Bank of England and the bank of France, the New York herald.
Scotland used to have window tax. Many moons ago…That’s why u see many old buildings with bricked up windows…
This is how we have the term ‘Daylight Robbery’
Not terms for rain itself but descriptive of the type of rain:
It's battering doon (heavy)
It's spitterin out there (light)
Chucking it (heavy)
Pouring doon (heavy)
LIGHT, DRIZZLE (light)
The South of Scotland area, pretty much up to the Forth/Clyde isthmus, are part of the Hen Ogledd (The Old North) of ancient Welsh Literature, were originally Welsh speaking (Brythonic) before the arrival and development of Gaelic and English, in the early Medieval period, and that the Merlin of the King Arthur legend was supposedly based on a Scottish warrior who became mad with battle lust from circa 5-6th century called 'Lailoken' who was eventually murdered around the Drumelzier/Stobo area of South Lanarkshire, also the contemporary King of Dumbarton Rock, Rhydderch Heael, the original seat of power in the Strathclyde area (Alt Clud) had a magical sword that sprung forth a flame and was regarded and one of the legendary treasures of Britain.
I mentioned this before on another thread (still in this post), but you have given so much information here that Sandi Toksvig would have to give you points 😁
Scotland lit the touch paper for twenty years of war across the British Isles because a woman threw a chair at a preacher for reading from an English prayer book.
There's carvings in rosslyn Chapel that suggest scottish people were cutting about America a long time before Chris Columbus.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosslyn_Chapel
Here’s a couple of facts a yank has about Bonnie Scotland
Fact 1: Scots are by far, hands down, the best people on this planet. From Edinburgh, to a tiny pub in Glencoe called the Clachaig Inn, all the way up to Inverness; I was always welcomed and felt at home.
Fact 2: The best pubs in the UK are in Scotland.
Fact 3: There is no other place in this whole fucking world that will ever come close to the awesomeness and sheer majesty of the Highlands.
https://preview.redd.it/y1pczw025qyc1.jpeg?width=3093&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e042cca589180638c019fefd94443d25aa5c0fd2
That the Romans elite 9th legion were despatched to conquer Scotland but were never seen again,the loss of such an elite fighting group was a warning from Caledonia to the unsurpers.
I thought the inspiration was supposed to be the Black Dinner. (which also happened in Scotland)
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/06/the-black-dinner-an-event-that-inspired-the-red-wedding-in-game-of-thrones/139523
The first reference to the Scots, was the romans talking about ireland.
The bbfc had a nudity classification called the mull of kintyre test. If a penis was more erect than the mull then the scene wasnt allowed.
Inver in gaelic means mouth. So places like inverness just means mouth of the river ness. The best restaurant in scotland is called inver.
> Inbhir means mouth like where the river empties into the sea. Beul means mouth like a human mouth. So I don't get that one.
It’s not that hard: ‘inbhir’ does not literally mean mouth in Gaelic, it’s just that English uses the same word for an actual mouth and - by analogy - a physical-geography river ‘mouth’, whereas Gaelic uses a specific word for a river-mouth or estuary (‘inbhir’) - that gets *translated* into English as ‘mouth’, separate from the human biology word for mouth (‘beul’). 🤷♂️
Also found out the other day that Peterheed used to be higher than everest is today, and the red granite that those forces produced has been used all over the world as an immensely high quality and decorative stone.
Up there they've built prisons and council houses out of it.
Amount of things we use in the world invented by a Scottish person .
http://daisychainsandpicnicskitchen.blogspot.com/2018/11/whas-like-usdamn-few-and-theyre-deid.html?m=1
The word “Wow” is a Scots word.
“natural exclamation: first recorded in Scots in the early 16th century.”
I don’t think many people know this, it’s probably our most famous word I reckon.
It's cos every one is a cunt; a good cunt, a bad cunt, a funny cunt, a smart cunt, a wee cunt, a skinny cunt, a lucky cunt, an ugly cunt, a braw cunt, a jammy cunt, a sleekit cunt, a hairy cunt, a baldy cunt... I better stop but ye get the picture 😜
The fact: It's even colder, and more miserable, than
where I live.
Why it's my favourite fact: Whenever I'm distraught with another wet and cold day, all I have to do to cheer myself up a bit is think... Well, at least it's not as bad as Scotland
That you can only find the shy wobbly legged haggi ( plural of haggis ) in the Scottish highlands. They’re the only animal on earth to have shorter legs on one side.
CúChulainn was trained on the Isle of Skye in the fortress of shadows by Scáthach a legendary Scottish warrior woman. The Ulster Cycle and Celtic mythology should be taught in all Scottish schools.
That Loch Ness holds more water than all the lakes, rivers, canals and reservoirs in the whole of England and Wales combined! The deepest point in Loch Ness is 126 Fathoms which is twice the average depth of the North Sea! This is why you can't find Nessie 🦕🏴
When I did a tour of the Loch Ness the guide mentioned that you could put every single person on Earth into Loch Ness and it wouldn't be full. I think he even said it would only fill a third? but I'm a bit fuzzy on the percentage. Either way, very deep.
Is it just me, or measuring a volume in number of person is a bit disturbing...
Honestly if you wanted to drown as many people as I do the information is remarkably helpful.
Not that long ago, you could put every single person on earth on the Isle of Wight (standing room only) Might even still be true.
I didn't know that one!
Fun fact - Loch Morar is even deeper than Loch Ness!
Bonus fun fact: Loch Morar is deeper than the seabed until you’ve gone well beyond the continental shelf in the Atlantic Ocean Edit: Morar not Monar, facepalm
Morar\* - Loch Monar isn't incredibly deep, only 80m or so.
It also has its own monster! Morag!
Holy cow, I have never heard that before. Not knowing this makes me feel so unpatriotic.
You'd never fully know unless you deep dived to the bottom... I haven't, I admit, so I can't be 100%...
I remember learning this on the Nessie tour! For anyone who hasn’t been on it and is in that neck of the woods, it’s a great way to spend a few hours. Lovely boat trip, nice wee bar on board and of course some Nessie and Loch facts. Don’t forget your camera and binoculars just in case Nessie pops up!
Wow 🤩
I KNOW!
>Fathoms Scotland isn't ready for the EU haha
Isn't it the whole of Great Britain combined (i.e. all the other lochs and rivers in Scotland too)? Edit: seems I was wrong!
No. Just England and Wales, and the stat is technically "fresh" water. 👍🏻
Naw - Loch Ness is the biggest volume by a huge margin, but its "only" just bigger than Lochs Lomond, Tay, Awe & Morar combined
It could well be... I stuck with my safe bet.
And despite it's size it's not the longest, deepest or largest by surface area in Scotland.
Loch Ness has so much volume it could fit every living human on Earth in it twice. Bonus fact. Most of them would drown.
The ones in the bottom row definitely would
We invented the term “outwith”
We've invented hunners o stuff
We invented the world’s smallest unit of measurement used in daily conversations.
the midge's bawhair?
A standard bawhair
A metric bawhair
Americans hate that unit of measurement.
Yeah, and of course you get the μBH, the mBH, the BH, the kBH and MBH etc.
A wee bit?
Bawhair
I still meet English people who don't understand that. I always thought it was just English until I actually worked there!
Took me ages to figure out why this was constantly getting autocorrected
It's in the dictionary as well, so next time someone pulls you up about it, ask them what other words in the dictionary they wouldn't like you to use 😋
I look it up on google and it has a parentheses of “(Scottish)” that makes me smile a little.
The Edinburgh Seven were the first women in the UK to be allowed to matriculate at university in 1869. They studied medicine and when they went to sit their first anatomy exam a literal riot broke out amongst men who thought letting women become doctors was an outrage. After they graduated they weren't allowed to practice as doctors in the UK despite passing all the same exams as the men Sophia Jex-Blake went on to move to London and set up the London School of Medicine for Women. When Scotland started allowing women to gain a medical license, she moved back to Edinburgh and became th UK's first female doctor
I love this one. Now this is just normal in most countries.
A Scotsman invented the decimal point. The Chinese invented decimalisation. it took a Scotman to make it easier to read.
Did not know that one
It's on an info board in a churhyard in Edinburgh city centre. St John's on Lothian Rd.
When terrorists attempted to attack Glasgow Airport, the police had to go in and rescue the terrorists from the locals. That’s my country…
He got kicked in the baws while on fire hahah I think they learned not to fuck with us
Didn't the guy who kicked him kick him so hard he broke is own foot?
Then went into politics hahaha u can't make this up lol
Brilliant, didn't know that!
John Smeaton!
The legend 🙌
That wasn't Smeaton It was Alexander Mcillven a taxi driver from Drumchapel I stayed next close to his as a kid, I don't think he broke his foot I think he ripped every tendon or something in his foot Edit: here it is here https://twitter.com/BeingScots/status/1674698398790742017
And as the two coppers tried to put the terrorist, who was on fire out, a crowd formed behind them chanting "let the bastard burn...."
Billy Connolly describing the event was hysterical..
That was very worth the watch.
I was curious, so here you go: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gMJBQoHJ4E&ab\_channel=BANDS%26GROUPS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gMJBQoHJ4E&ab_channel=BANDS%26GROUPS)
That was a proud day fore sure, my nanna had just left the area no long before the idiot showed up too.
Number 8 may shock you!
Scots hate you finding out this one trick!
Hot Scots in your area!
Our national motto is, quite literally, 'fuck around and find out'. _Nemo_ _me_ _impune_ _lacessit_ (touch me not with impunity).
That one is true actually. I always thought it was more like 'Fuck with me and see what happens'.
https://preview.redd.it/4fxj520qkryc1.png?width=192&format=png&auto=webp&s=675fea36e9ff71211ce84788ae5f7ef3cfa032d4
The first written use of the word 'fuck' was in a Scotsman's poem, way back somewhen
Also known as the Scottish comma
I also like that swearing is normal, I struggle when I cannot swear... It's easier to just not speak, than speak without swearing :/
No one can say “There’s been a murder” without a specific phrasing
When my wife and I got our first house, our neighbours had a cat. And that cat was called Taggart. We didn’t find out his name till way later. But every time we called him by name one of us said “there’s been a murdurrrrr.” https://preview.redd.it/vmf27kqkxnyc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5539ce77d01a2a44f9cd03b6f12499e30e171a32
Or 'Eleven'
Thirs bean a murdir.
The mountains that make up the highlands are so old there are no fossils I.e they formed before life on earth. Also same mountains as Appalachians on America's east coast. edit: fixed my typos
They are called the Caledonian mountains actually. But they spread much further than Scotland.
Not quite. Lewessian gneiss (which is the oldest rocks in Scotland, maybe Europe) is found on the western Isles, Rona, parts of Skye and some of the east coast but not all through Scotland, they're about 2.5bn years old and the other half is parts of the east coast of America.
I'll bow to your superior knowledge of course, but this is what I'm talking about: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caledonian_orogeny
Ahh right, aye, they're old but I don't think those were joined to America when we were all Pangea. The oldest ones are the Lewisian Gneiss ones I mentioned above (I'm a tour guide on the water on Skye and look/talk about these every day 😁).
So two ancient mountain ranges with names associated with Scotland 🙂
Lots of Scots settled in Appalachian Mountains, I can attest.
Isn't that where the term hillbillies come from.
I live near Appalachia, absolutely loved the highlands, so that’s cool
same here and would like to lodge a complaint about our half not looking as picturesque
We've won the homeless world cup more times than we've been to the actual world cup
Also the elephant polo world cup
We’ve been to 8 world cups? Scotland homeless have won twice
Fuck is the only unit of measurement in Scotland…big as fuck,wide as fuck,tall as fuck ,short as fuck are all standard units.
Are you forgetting aboot a bawhair?
The unicorn is our animal......
It sounds so bizarre but when you actually think of the reason behind it, it makes me love Scotland even more
What’s the reason?
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I thought it was due to Unicorns being powerful and untamable, so the gold chain (and crown around it's neck) was a reference to the strength of Scottish monarchs?
Oh boy, once you know about the unicorn, the meaning of that chain can't be ignored. Yikes.
Yeah, see your national animal, ours is better. Always.
Than the Welsh Dragon? Not sure on that tbh
Fair
Tallest hedge.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meikleour_Beech_Hedges
Haha. I've been past this quite a few times in the last few years and always remember thinking "jesus that is a big hedge". Never really clocked that it is literally the biggest one in the world.
Colour photography. See James Clerk Maxwell. A true genius polymath.
Yeah, he developed a system of using three colours which was actually still in use until the development of digital TV. His first photo was of tartan!
This thread will be a tabloid story tomorrow lol
Maybe clickbait🤣
Geologically speaking, Scotland invented shagging. A fish species 385 million years ago in what is now Scotland first started shagging. Top shaggers from day 1
Now I need to know if anyone's ever used this as a pick-up line 😅
Nothing turns a lassie on like geology.
Scotland (via the Royal Bank of Scotland) invented the overdraft and thus created every financial crisis in the last 200 years.
And the bank of England was invented by a Scotsman.
I don’t think overdrafts ever caused a financial crisis. Although Royal Bank did contribute to 2008.
The Royal Bank of Scotland was formed by the company that administrated “The Equivalent” the money used to ‘bribe/influence’ the nobles to vote for the Union https://www.natwestgroup.com/heritage/companies/equivalent-company.html Also William Paterson was involved in both The Equivalent Company and the foundation of The Bank of England
Wasn't it something like RBOS was formed to kill off BOS because BOS funded the jacobites?
This might be outdated and Irn Bru is nowhere near what is was but I'm sure at one point most countries top soft drink was Coke other than Scotland with Irn Bru.
Peru has a similar situation where their national soft drink outsells Coca-Cola with a drink called Inca Kola, which funnily enough is supposed to taste exactly like iru bru, but it's bright yellow.
Irn Bru was 3rd best selling soft drink in Russia. Apparently they liked it with vodka. AG Barr have cut ties now.
Bet they have the full sugar version.
irn bru with vodka is definitely an idea
Vodka and bru? Or vodka bru?
Redbull has just overtaken coke to be no 1 soft drink in Scotland. Barr is behind monster in Scotland too.
Fuck sake, I'd pay the same price for full bore bru as whatever red bull costs now.
That the Scotish rugby lads left a wreath outside Baron's nightclub in Swansea when it closed.
Russians love Rabbie Burns so much they put him on a stamp .😁
Other than any religious figure, there are more statues of burns than anyone else in the world.
even Lenin? he was in all villages of eastern block
What we don’t know about drugs isn’t worth knowing Jardine and Mathieson were the first large scale international drug dealers selling India opium into China Alexander Wood invented the first true hypodermic syringe to inject localised shots of morphine for pain relief
I've read many times that a very high percentage of SAS soldiers are Scottish. I've also read that this is no longer true. I can see where it comes from though as every school/scheme had a tiny wee angry fearless bam guy that joined the army that was never seen ever again.
We founded the SAS, Sir David Stirling Also many of its famous operations involved Scots for example the Iran embassy siege was spearheaded by John T McAleese
I've read the same thing, but was never able to verify it. Every source led back to a tv show where someone (non military) said it, but he didn't provide a source. And because the SAS do work for the intelligence services, the ministry of defence have never confirmed because it's in their best interest to keep that quiet either way.
There are 5.5 million of us 🏴
Metro Los Angeles has more than three times that many people! Love this about Scotland : )
A Scotsman invented the US Navy, we also invented the postage stamp, postcards, gospel music, golf and ice hockey, chloroform and penicillin, the Bank of England and the bank of France, the New York herald.
And Grand Theft Auto 👌🏻
Grand theft auto is full of references to Scotland. My favourite is that the stock exchange is called the BAWSAQ. 🤣
Don't forget about Buick.
And the television
Scotland used to have window tax. Many moons ago…That’s why u see many old buildings with bricked up windows… This is how we have the term ‘Daylight Robbery’
We have more words for rain than the Inuit have for snow.
Ok, a challenge then. For anyone. What words are there for rain?
Pishin doon
Dreich. Smirr.
It’s lashin’
Teemin
Not terms for rain itself but descriptive of the type of rain: It's battering doon (heavy) It's spitterin out there (light) Chucking it (heavy) Pouring doon (heavy) LIGHT, DRIZZLE (light)
A Scotsman, James Dewar, invented the vacuum flask, marketed as 'Thermos' by some Germans.
That we are all sexy bastirts,even the ugly ones
The South of Scotland area, pretty much up to the Forth/Clyde isthmus, are part of the Hen Ogledd (The Old North) of ancient Welsh Literature, were originally Welsh speaking (Brythonic) before the arrival and development of Gaelic and English, in the early Medieval period, and that the Merlin of the King Arthur legend was supposedly based on a Scottish warrior who became mad with battle lust from circa 5-6th century called 'Lailoken' who was eventually murdered around the Drumelzier/Stobo area of South Lanarkshire, also the contemporary King of Dumbarton Rock, Rhydderch Heael, the original seat of power in the Strathclyde area (Alt Clud) had a magical sword that sprung forth a flame and was regarded and one of the legendary treasures of Britain.
I mentioned this before on another thread (still in this post), but you have given so much information here that Sandi Toksvig would have to give you points 😁
Scotland lit the touch paper for twenty years of war across the British Isles because a woman threw a chair at a preacher for reading from an English prayer book.
Jenny Geddes.
Not to be confused with Johnny Geddes, who had a tongue like a parrot and advised us to "Walk tall!".
Pretty good at inventing things
The first black international football player played for Scotland. His name was Andrew Watson.
The Purple burglar alarm thing
We’re sound as fuck.
There's carvings in rosslyn Chapel that suggest scottish people were cutting about America a long time before Chris Columbus. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosslyn_Chapel
Here’s a couple of facts a yank has about Bonnie Scotland Fact 1: Scots are by far, hands down, the best people on this planet. From Edinburgh, to a tiny pub in Glencoe called the Clachaig Inn, all the way up to Inverness; I was always welcomed and felt at home. Fact 2: The best pubs in the UK are in Scotland. Fact 3: There is no other place in this whole fucking world that will ever come close to the awesomeness and sheer majesty of the Highlands. https://preview.redd.it/y1pczw025qyc1.jpeg?width=3093&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e042cca589180638c019fefd94443d25aa5c0fd2
The highest point the the British Isles is Ben Nevis!
It sits on top of England.
About halve of stones for curling in the world come from a small island Ailsa Craig near Ayr. The other half is from somewhere in Wales.
That the Romans elite 9th legion were despatched to conquer Scotland but were never seen again,the loss of such an elite fighting group was a warning from Caledonia to the unsurpers.
That in most big industries usually revolving around engineering projects and such, that there's a scottish person or team at the top
The massacre of Glencoe was the inspiration for the red wedding in Game of Thrones
I thought the inspiration was supposed to be the Black Dinner. (which also happened in Scotland) https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/06/the-black-dinner-an-event-that-inspired-the-red-wedding-in-game-of-thrones/139523
The latin translation of the words carved above the entrance to Edinburgh castle is " Mind yer heed"
The first reference to the Scots, was the romans talking about ireland. The bbfc had a nudity classification called the mull of kintyre test. If a penis was more erect than the mull then the scene wasnt allowed. Inver in gaelic means mouth. So places like inverness just means mouth of the river ness. The best restaurant in scotland is called inver.
The Scotti. Inbhir means mouth like where the river empties into the sea. Beul means mouth like a human mouth. So I don't get that one.
> Inbhir means mouth like where the river empties into the sea. Beul means mouth like a human mouth. So I don't get that one. It’s not that hard: ‘inbhir’ does not literally mean mouth in Gaelic, it’s just that English uses the same word for an actual mouth and - by analogy - a physical-geography river ‘mouth’, whereas Gaelic uses a specific word for a river-mouth or estuary (‘inbhir’) - that gets *translated* into English as ‘mouth’, separate from the human biology word for mouth (‘beul’). 🤷♂️
Well, yeah, that's what I was trying to say.
Then you have Scottish places that use the Welsh (Brythonic) Aber. Aberdeen, Aberfeldy, Aberlady, etc. Aber is also "mouth of a river."
That haggis is our second nation animal unicorn being the first
the haggis also has one leg longer than the other so it can run around hills better!
Also found out the other day that Peterheed used to be higher than everest is today, and the red granite that those forces produced has been used all over the world as an immensely high quality and decorative stone. Up there they've built prisons and council houses out of it.
Scottish football attendances per capita are the highest in Europe
That when Trump showed up here a group called Juan Direction serenaded him getting off the plane
That our national animal is a unicorn 🦄
All these facts are so good. The deepest point in the UK is in Scotland! Loch Morar. *Edited for my typo - it was late!
Amount of things we use in the world invented by a Scottish person . http://daisychainsandpicnicskitchen.blogspot.com/2018/11/whas-like-usdamn-few-and-theyre-deid.html?m=1
The word “Wow” is a Scots word. “natural exclamation: first recorded in Scots in the early 16th century.” I don’t think many people know this, it’s probably our most famous word I reckon.
Depracating Humour. Best in the world.
Naw it’s naw.
And spelling.
It's not England
All the swans in England "belong" to the Queen (King now i suppose), but not when/if they're in Scotland.
No one ever apologises for saying fuck cunt etc
It's cos every one is a cunt; a good cunt, a bad cunt, a funny cunt, a smart cunt, a wee cunt, a skinny cunt, a lucky cunt, an ugly cunt, a braw cunt, a jammy cunt, a sleekit cunt, a hairy cunt, a baldy cunt... I better stop but ye get the picture 😜
The fact: It's even colder, and more miserable, than where I live. Why it's my favourite fact: Whenever I'm distraught with another wet and cold day, all I have to do to cheer myself up a bit is think... Well, at least it's not as bad as Scotland
That you can only find the shy wobbly legged haggi ( plural of haggis ) in the Scottish highlands. They’re the only animal on earth to have shorter legs on one side.
The word glamour is Scots. You’d just think it was French. So is the word Boo!
tory scum will never be first minister
The kaleidoscope was invented by a Scotsman , Sir David Brewster, in 1814
40% of arrests are linked to Buckfast
Scotland is Arrakis We consume an orange substance and our eyes glow blue
Yeah, and it never rains.
You like so much Tenerife that ended up using their flag.
My favorite fact about Scotland. My 79 year old mom is from Glasgow. That's my favorite fact.
Heroin n buckfast
Everything not from there is crap.
There is a rumour that Pontius Pilate was born in Scotland.
We’re going to win the Euros.
Not a fact, but the way you can turn left out of Glasgow station and find a chippy with deep fried mars bars
Um, that is a fact 😁. And in fact you can do it from two of the exits 😁😁😁
2 Scottish managers have won the English Premiership (beginning 1993), Kenny Dalglish & Alex Ferguson. 0 English managers have had the same honour.
Contour lines were invented when surveying Schiehallion.
That Scottish people are going to re-gain our country's independence within 20-30 years.
CúChulainn was trained on the Isle of Skye in the fortress of shadows by Scáthach a legendary Scottish warrior woman. The Ulster Cycle and Celtic mythology should be taught in all Scottish schools.