Yes—Scotch Sir: No one has ever objected to the people
of Britain being called British, nor the people of England, English ; the people of Wales, Welsh; the people of Ireland, Irish; the people of France, French—and even the people of Spain, Spanish. Then why all this fuss about the people of Scotland being Scotch ? I myself am Scotch—I, like Mr D. M. Richardson (5 March), like whisky, and should be delighted if Mr Richardson would send me a bottle of Scotch (preferably Haig's). I suspect Mr Richardson has difficulty in pronouncing 'Scotch'. 'Scots' is much easier, as Burns himself found'Scotchmen' would jar on a poet's ear : and so he wrote 'Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled.' But surely Mr' Richardson has heard of Scotch mist, and perhaps of butterscocch ? In one of his novels Hardy writes of 'the Scotchman.' What a trouncing Mr Richardson would give him if he (Hardy) were alive today!
Would Mr Richardson like to be called an 'Angle'—or if a Cockney a 'Hangle'?
Nan Wishart 40 Southborough Road, Bickley, Kent
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