The word 'Scot' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun and refers to a person from Scotland or someone of Scottish descent. Example: "The annual Highland Games attracted Scots from all over the world to participate in traditional events such as caber tossing and bagpipe playing."
Clearly Curtis had had enough of Tate Britain: one might surmise that she found the politics at the Tate to be intractable: after all she had the temerity to be not only a woman, but a Scot.
Busby is on the brink of 60, a Scot whose considered, relentlessly specific use of words rides easily on wayward grammar.
I don't mean they've been empty before, but not like this," said Aldama, who has previously competed for her native Cuba and Sudan but has lived in Britain for more than a decade and is married to a Scot.
The real winner on O'Donnell's report card approach, though, is Nicola Sturgeon, who exudes competence, scores strongly on shared values (as long as you are a Scot), and who, having shaken off the earlier pejorative "nippy sweetie" tag of which David Torrance writes in his new biography, is nowadays is making a serious effort to come over as likeable.
"Whenever I did anything, particularly in this tongue, I didn't want anybody to go, 'That's shite, by the way, that's not true.' I think that so far, whenever I've been asked to interpret any Scot in any way, I've told it as it is and I've sounded the way they are.
As well as emulating Macmillan, Hall should also follow the example of another Scot, Lord Reith.
Which immediately brings to mind Daffy, Carlyle's sweaty - and to my mind caricatured - psycho-Scot in The Beach.
Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter, said: "It is shocking that so many people have fallen victim to these kind of scams but even more astonishing is the fact that these rogue landlords are seemingly able to get away with it scot-free.
Indignation at the alleged behaviour of French executives will only nourish a general feeling that bosses are not only overpaid, but get away with financial abuse scot-free.
Letting them off scot-free would be a blow to recent international efforts to bring to justice those who have committed systematic murder and torture.
"They say they will only put the big fish on trial, but why should the small fish get away scot-free?" Some who played an active part in the massacre, the women complain, are now serving in the local police.
