[BITList] The Sassenach

[HUGH]

A quiz show on BBC2 TV this evening asked the question, "What, according to the Scots, are Sassenachs?"  Daft question, for a start, but they went on with it, and Lo, the answer was Englishmen.  It's a common misconception, and many Scots share it.  According to the Gael, anyone below the Highland line is a Sassenach, a Southerner.  To the Geordie, those south of the Warford Gap are Sassenachs, or, as the audience at a northern working man's club put it to a struggling comedian from those parts, Southern Nancy Boy, gerroff.  It's being together that keeps us British.

Hugh.
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