TheBanyanTree: Educating Foreigners

[Peter Macinnis]

For shame!  Neeps are turnips.

My children, adorned with the blatantly Sassenach names Angus, Catriona 
and Duncan tell me that the neeps are what make the haggis taste good.

Only joking -- about the haggis.  Neeps, however remind me of Dr 
Johnson's definition of oats as something which in England is fed to 
horses, but in Scotland, is fed to the people.  Neeps are given to the 
people in Scotland, and to the compost heap elsewhere.

peter

Roger Pye wrote:
> Parn my iggerance speakin' as a Sassenach but wot's a neep?
> 
> roger
> 
> 
> 
> Woofie wrote:
>> Hello nutters,
> 
>> Our Scottish visitors were a little timid in tasting such foreign fare,
>> as their staple diet is haggis and neeps - (Between you and me,  it was




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