What's the difference between scotsman and tartan?
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.
Tartan
Definition:
(n.) Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern.
(n.) A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib.
Example Sentences:
(1) The three rooms are plush and contemporary with tartan trim.
(2) If the scenes in Faro are anything to go by he has the Tartan Army’s backing to do precisely that.
(3) Its annual conferences were a mishmash of Highlands conservative women in tartan skirts, angry socialists from the central belt and, unique to the party, an embarrassing array of men in kilts armed with broadswords and invoking the ghosts of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
(4) The fact is, you can’t quite see the tartan rainbow when you’re living right under it.
(5) Lance Payton, a freelance hairdresser in his late 40s from Bath, who joined the Tories seven years ago, is one exception in his green-and-pink tartan suit.
(6) So, should you incur a public-spirited 50,000-volt warning shot – perhaps for brandishing your pension book in an aggressive manner or because a young PC has mistaken your tartan shopping trolley for a piece of field artillery – don't accidentally shout "Oh fuck!"
(7) Tom Young, 63, a retired British Gas worker wearing a red tartan scarf, said Berwick was "the forgotten area of Northumberland".
(8) As is regularly observed by the tartan twitterati, Scotland has twice as many pandas as Conservative MPs, so Tories popping north to advise the natives on their voting duty are liable to prove counter-productive.
(9) The models' hair was styled into outsize saucers, their lashes and brows powdered white; they wore Black Watch tartan and scowled as they stomped.
(10) Next in line was the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, that’s IHMC, in Pensacola, and in third place was Tartan Rescue from Carnegie Mellon University National Robotics Engineering Center.
(11) "What she seems to be is a bridge between 1950s nationalism, which might be regarded as old-fashioned tweed and tartan SNP, and the modern social democratic SNP that is being forged in Holyrood."
(12) Oscar Marsh, aged 10, already has plans for the panda toy he has just been bought from the gift shop at Edinburgh zoo, which is filled with row after row of pandas in tartan skirts, panda toffees, panda-shaped shortbread tins, panda hats and earmuffs.
(13) But by dint of iron discipline and a little luck, we made it to the ground on time and found the Tartan Army in good heart; as ever, it was full of booze, hope and humour.
(14) The Tartan Army, as its fans are collectively known, is well-known for its open and passionate rivalry with the ancient and traditional foe, England, although one recent opinion suggested more Scots are either neutral or back England than don't.
(15) Then over the cardigan you wear a gold leather bodice and then a giant tartan coat.
(16) That tartan rug is a heather-hued heath before my hearth (alliteration too!).
(17) Jogging on forest grounds and cinder paths is less strenuous compared to asphalt tracks or tartan paths.
(18) "We want a striker" was the next chant to emanate from the Tartan Army; Mackie was operating in that lone role after the withdrawl of Miller.
(19) Tartan, for instance, for all its treasured place in the royal family's dressing-up box, appears to be as innocuously iconic to nationalists, in the approach to the referendum, as are tributes to William Wallace and celebrations of Bannockburn, in which around 11,000 English soldiers died.
(20) 11.35am: My colleague Kevin McCarra also believes England fans have turned over a new leaf: I have been watching the amiable England fans in Port Elizabeth and, troublingly for a a jock like me, I realised they have taken over the Tartan Army's determinedly good-natured approach now that Scotland no longer bother with major tournaments.