TheBanyanTree: Educating Foreigners

[Peter Macinnis]

English-Canadian musical genius (also a bagpiper, and resident of 
Australia for some years), Anna Russell, noted that when they piped the 
haggis, they kept playing when it was served, so as to keep your mind 
off what you were eating.

But for those who asked or dared not, Sassenach is a Scots form of 
"Saxon", usually used in a slightly pejorative sense.  The sort of 
person who uses it often wishes he or she had English blood, preferably 
on a claymore, but the use here lacked any overt shredding intent.

The Welsh language has a similar word with similar overtones.

I will now return to my normal watchful somnolence.

peter

JENA B NORTON wrote:
> It's been my experience (with dubious thanks to the Woofess) that no amount of neeps can help haggis. And I'm no Sassenach, being in the Clan Culquon. 
> 
> Jena
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Peter Macinnis <petermacinnis at ozemail.com.au>

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

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