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saying that " Scot and Scotchmen are synonymous ; the former may he more in favour ivith writers than tlie latter , but both are , we think , proper to be used , and that in the same sense objected to by W . P . B . " At page 406 our fastidious brother resumes the subject , and makes a somewhat ungraceful retreat

from his position as condemning the use of Scotch in any other capacity than that of a verb . While now admitting that the word " may be used correctly enough in such p hrases as ' guid braid Scotch' —that " when one is writing 'braid Scotch' he can uso it as much as lie pleases "—he inconsistently , we think , objects to its appearance in an " auld Scotch Sang , "—

The Scotch blood leaps in a my vei ns . and suggests as an improvement the substitution of " Scots ' , " a noun in tbe possessive case , for the unfortunate adjective , Scotch . We prefer the song as the author wrote it , to any tinkered version such as that suggested by W . P . B .

That the Ploughman Bard , ancl other poets of lesser note , should have erred hy their use of the word Scotch is not to be wondered at , when the works of Sir Walter Scott are , according to W . P . B . ' s idea , marred by similar vulgarisms . "Waverley " abounds with the word , the use of which our brither

Scot considers " to be bad ; " and in more than one page of the same work will be found the dissyllable , the use of which he considers " far worse . " In the novel in question the reader is brought in contact with " Scotch mists , " " Scotch magistrates , " " Scotch ideas" " Broad Scotch" etc . ; the Chief of

Glenna-, , quoieh is put down as being " a Frenchified Scotchman ; " "the Scotch" are said to be "liberal in computing their land and liquors ; " and we are informed that " the Scottish pint corresponds to two English quarts . " The Messrs . Chambers do not seem to coincide with W . P-B . in his condemnation of the use

of the word Scotch . In their "Information for the People , " one will meet with such phrases as— " a body of Scotch , 7 , 000 strong , were nearly cut off ; " "the Scotch were encouraged to persevere by the court of France ; " " he attempted , iu 1637 , to introduce a new Book of Common Prayer into the Scotch

churches ; " "the Scotch terrier has short wiry hair ; " " there are English , Irish , and Scotch country dances , and Scotch reels . " In " Hogg ' s Instructor , " the author of "Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers " is spoken of as a " Scotchman . " Waddell , the accomplished editor of " Life and Works of Robert Burns "

, does not ignore " Scotch " nor " Scotchmen , " neither does the learned editor of "Macmillan ' s Magazine . ' ' Cosmo Innes , too , in his Preface to the "Acts of the Scottish Parliaments , " makes free use of the adjective Scotch— " Scotch charters . . . Scotch Parliament . .. . Scotch names , " etc . Passin < rto

the newspaper press , the reports of tbo proceedings in both Houses of Parliament testify to the frequent uso by our senators of the words to which W . P . B displays such an antipathy . Gladstone , in his nomination speech the other day , said he thought " that the Scotch were pretty good judges of Protestantism ;" and at the anniversary festival of the " Scottish

Hospital , " held at Loudon on St . Andrew ' s Day , the Marquis of Bute was vulgar enough to call his fellowcountrymen " Scotchmen . " Lest , however , W . P . B . should decline to regard as authorities on the point at issue the names we have

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mentioned , we beg to refer him to Walker ' s Dietiouary of the English Language as an undoubted authority for correctness of expression . In his "Rules to be observed by the natives of Scotland , " etc ., the compiler invariably uses the nouns " Scotch " and " Scotchman . " And from the same source we

learn that " Scotch" means "belonging to S cotland . " In Ash ' s Dictionary we have— " Scot , a native of Scotland ; " " S cotchman , a native of Scotland ; " "S cotchmen ( s . plu . of Scotchman ) , more than one Scotchman ; " Scottish ( adj . from Scot ) , belonging to the Scots , belonging to Scotland . " We beg also to

refer W . P . B . to the English Grammar , where lie will . find " Scotch" classed among the proper adjectives : preceded by the article the , the word ranks as a noun . —D . MUBEAT LTOZS . DE 1 UVATI 05 OE EBEEMASOS . I hope next week to send a further communication to Masonic Notes and Queries on this subject . —A MASOXTC STUDEZST .

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