WHY NOT SCOTCH?
SIR,--If Mr. James Loose has recovered from the shock administered to him by the pen of Mr. D. Eirwin Morgan, I wonder if he would be kind enough to tell us what I have never been able to find out, namely, when it was, why it was and how it was that Scotchmen banded together and resolved to, con- sider themselves insulted and outraged whenever they were called Scotch. The word 'Scotch' was used in the sense of Scottish, and not in the sense of whisky, by Sir Walter Scott, R. L. Stevenson and Sir James Barrie, which I would have thought was good enough authority for calling a Scot a Scotchrnan or Scotch without making him feel quarrelsome.
I once asked the late Lord Charles Hope, who was a Scotchman if ever there was a Scot. what he thought about this assumed national sensibility, and he replied that he thought it rubbish.'
ROBERT HARTMAN
Pedor's Close, Smithwood Common, Cranleigh. Surrey
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