What's the difference between englishman and scotsman?

Englishman


Definition:

  • (n.) A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He becomes the first Englishman to make a permanent move to Serie A since Jay Bothroyd signed for Perugia in 2003.
  • (2) Source: Reuters Dirty old river If the notion of an Englishman’s castle as his home is being challenged on the Levels, where scores of properties flooded, the bursting of the Thames from its banks a few hundred yards from the royal castle of Windsor has raised the issue to a new height.
  • (3) As if an Englishman would count his life a success because he had a mobile phone and lived in a country where a government transitioned peacefully in a democratic election.
  • (4) This is some "Englishman's castle", merely the direct result of half a century of political bribery .
  • (5) The opening lines of Hill's first completed (but second to be published) novel, Fell of Dark (1971), were clearly prophetic: "I possess the Englishman's usual ambivalent attitude to the police.
  • (6) The Italian has so far been unable to take up Clement’s offer to pay a visit to Derby’s training ground but the Englishman says the pair will probably speak before the United game so Clement can find out whether a manager who has won the Champions League three times has any words of advice, though he reckons he knows what he will hear.
  • (7) Gove has accused the Germans of adhering to such social Darwinist ideas, but he should know that these were widespread across Europe, and that one of their fullest enunciations came from Herbert Spencer, an Englishman.
  • (8) Gary Neville insisted that he had no intention of resigning as Valencia manager after his side was hammered 7-0 at the Camp Nou by Barcelona on Wednesday night – but the club’s sporting director Suso García Pitarch described it as “one of the worst results in our history” and evaded questions about the Englishman’s future at the Mestalla.
  • (9) This report presents a case of this in an Englishman who became ill whilst working the tropics.
  • (10) Through Connolly, he met George Orwell and Arthur Koestler , who became regular contributors; in later years, he appointed Eric Newby as the travel editor, persuaded Alan Ross to write on cricket and employed Gavin Young and the brilliant but deeply troubled John Gale, whose Clean Young Englishman is one of the finest English autobiographies.
  • (11) His view is that an Englishman should have the role and he dislikes the baggage that goes with the job.
  • (12) With allegations of cheap practice flying like left hooks around the Olympic boxing tournament, it took an Englishman and an Irishman to settle their legitimate sporting argument with admirable cordiality, Luke Campbell getting the better of John Joe Nevin to win Great Britain's 28th gold medal of the Games.
  • (13) The idea was that Hope had used Flashman's adventures to invent the tale of Rudolf Rassendyll, the Englishman who was the double of the King of Ruritania.
  • (14) Or she could believe that if she does what she is told she will be in a relationship with an Englishman and that somehow this "affair" (if that is not too romantic a word) will allow her to stay in the country.
  • (15) As an Englishman resident in Greece who has also spent 20 happy years working in Germany I feel ashamed of the mean-minded attitude of the German government.
  • (16) I’ve been careful to avoid mentioning Beckham directly, but Keane has no doubt about the influence of the Englishman’s move here in 2007.
  • (17) An Englishman’s home is his castle” – the idea that an obsession with home ownership is somehow in our national DNA – is one of them.
  • (18) An Englishman's home is his castle, and that castle now includes a moat to keep the peasants out.
  • (19) Dahlin also says the picture of Hodgson as a mild-mannered coach who rarely raises his voice is a myth, and players who crossed the Englishman would be told in no uncertain terms who was in charge.
  • (20) Elements of it read like a bad airport novel: the upper-class Englishman with links to former spies, the Dragon Lady armed with poison, the charismatic but ruthless leader and the maverick police chief.

Scotsman


Definition:

  • (n.) See Scotchman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Published in the Scotsman, the open letter also asserts that Scotland would be more secure and its businesses more successful within the UK, and that much is at stake from independence.
  • (2) She worked in the highly infectious “red zone” near Freetown and wrote in a diary for the Scotsman how she had been inspired to become a health worker after seeing images of the Ethiopian famine in the 1980s.
  • (3) Ian Stewart, the editor of the Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday, informed staff on Tuesday that the number of enforced cuts has come down to 20.
  • (4) To this former Scotsman reporter who spent quite some time watching the nats and Labour tear lumps out of each other north of the Border, that statement from Alex Salmond is remarkable.
  • (5) When I was a boy, people thought our technological limit was reached with the dazzling Flying Scotsman's train engine.
  • (6) Its stablemate the Scotsman saw a 7.67% circulation increase, with sales hitting 46,138 on average per day in August.
  • (7) The bespectacled, golf-loving Scotsman sticks to touring his stores and getting involved in the detail of the business, politely turning away interview requests.
  • (8) No genuinely all-Scotland quality paper ever emerged from this patchwork, but the Herald out of Glasgow and the Scotsman from Edinburgh became, together with the Irish Times and for a while the Yorkshire Post , the finest newspapers published in these islands outside London.
  • (9) And Magnus Linklater, the former Scotsman editor, thinks dropping Moore will be a disaster.
  • (10) "While the McCulloch goal was good, was it as good as the last goal scored by a Scotsman in France?"
  • (11) As Brodie waited to collect a back-pass, the mutt flew at him, knocking the Scotsman to the ground; he was stretchered off, having shattered his kneecap.
  • (12) The Birmingham Mail also published a “Lambert must go” editorial in Wednesday’s paper which called for the Scotsman’s head.
  • (13) As a result Rafael will likely be sat with the Scotsman on the bench at the start of the Champions League final at Wembley, with Fábio expected to make the starting XI.
  • (14) A consortium of three newspaper publishers – The Herald publisher Newsquest, The Scotsman publisher Johnston Press and DC Thomson - have been linked with a move to take on the Scotland pilot although it is unclear if a formal bid has been made.
  • (15) Although I was born in Glasgow, educated at Glasgow University and worked for both the Herald and the Scotsman, I come fresh to the conversation, after working in the US for the Guardian for the past seven years.
  • (16) Up to 30 editorial jobs are understood to be under threat at the Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday as parent company Johnston Press unveils its latest restructuring of the ailing titles.
  • (17) • Matt Qvortrup at the Scotsman says that the white paper will not win Alex Salmond the referendum.
  • (18) Johnston Press , the publisher of the Scotsman, Mentorn, the production company behind the BBC's Question Time, and Glasgow Herald publisher Newsquest today launched a consortium to run the regional news pilot in Scotland.
  • (19) Johnston Press, which owns titles including the Scotsman and Yorkshire Post, had about 15.5 million monthly unique users on its website portfolio at the end of June.
  • (20) "Following an organisational review, The Scotsman Publications Ltd is proposing a restructure which could result in a reduction of staff within the editorial department," managing director Stuart Birkett said in a short statement.

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