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Our cousins in America are developing rituals such as the kirkin' o' the tartan, through which tartan and plaid are being placed at the heart of their personae as Scots-Americans.Last week, we gained further insight into that at Tom Hunter's excellent event entitled "The Second Enlightenment" at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
In a recent by-election in Kilmarnock, the ERO spelled the word "Kilmarnock" in three different ways—sometimes with a zero instead of an "o"; and sometimes with the "i" and "r" missing.
As I said earlier, with NorthLink Orkney and Shetland Ferries, we ended up with various terms and conditions of pay within the one company because of the offshore situation and the tendering process. When the jobs moved over from P&O, we ended up with various rates of pay within the company.
We have just invented higher still to assess everybody, just as we invented standard grades to assess everybody, because we felt that the previous narrow O grades and highers were not allowing everybody's full potential to be assessed.
I hope that before the main event in this process takes place we can resolve a matter on which I sought guidance some weeks ago: is Holyrood pronounced with a long O or a short O? When I discussed the question with a member of the press who is not very supportive of this institution, he came up with the line, "Some s...
That might well have been a much cheaper route for the Executive to take and it might have satisfied the campaigners.Along with the rest of the SNP, I will support the SSP at 5 o' clock, 4 o'clock or whenever we finally get round to finishing this afternoon.
Further, I repeat that, in safeguarding our beaches and the associated waters, it is possible to do something to help marketable products, be they cockles or mussels—alive, alive-o. I cannot promise that there will be any songs in my speech.
I quote a woman from one of the sites who gave me the shock of my life when she said, "Dinna cry me ain o thae foreigners." In response to my questions, "How are you finding this?