A Quote by Andrew Neil
The English, in their ignorance, still have the romantic notion that Scottish schools are superior to English ones; they are at least a generation out of date.
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When you go to school in Holland you learn to speak English and write in English - but English is different from the Scottish language!
My father was English. He date-raped my mother so she's hated English men ever since. You know my boyfriend's English, and I'm, uh, I'm half-English, which she's never been real happy about. If she finds out I'm dating someone English, she'll ah, think I' turning my back on her and becoming a foreigner.' Cathy, that's the stupidest reason I've ever heard.
Because it was my first time acting in English, everyone on set was difficult to understand. It was a mix of Scottish, Irish, British and American English. To understand a Scottish accent or an Irish accent was so hard.
I've never seen an 'English' books section in, well, an English bookshop, but in Scotland, most bookshops have a set of shelves dedicated to Scottish authors.
I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English.
There was a call for part-time volunteers to teach at local government schools in Bengaluru and I was part of this program. That was when I realized the situation in these schools. I taught them English and even Class 7 kids didn't know basic English.
Not long time ago there was a striking example of the extent to which English has diverged: a television company put out a programme filmed in the English city of Newcastle, where the local variety of English is famously divergent and difficult, and the televised version was accompanied by English subtitles!
We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still different from it. What we say is that the child or foreigner has a 'partial knowledge of English' or is 'on his or her way' towards acquiring knowledge of English, and if they reach this goal, they will then know English.
A lot of the demos I write are all in English, so releasing music in English isn't translating to English, it's just keeping them in English.
A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.
My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
You can't be an American if you don't speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.
English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent.
My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.
'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry.
Ah, Scotland. I am three-parts Scottish and terribly proud of it, although maybe we should divide it into eighths, because my two-eighths are Danish and English, the Lumley part. But the bulk of the rest of me is Scottish - and Scottish ministers especially.
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