The word "Scots" is a perfectly acceptable and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective or a noun, and is used to refer to the people of Scotland or one of their languages. For example, you can use the phrase "Scots dialect" to refer to the various dialects spoken by people from Scotland.
He may have denied using the N-word but he also called an Asian man a "slope" and has called the Romanians "gypsies" and the Scots "tramps".
"If there is no union then why should the English pay, why would the English electorate agree to let Scots share their currency?" Trimble was awarded the Nobel peace prize, along with John Hume, for his role in bringing about the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
But the two understated Scots formed a formidable partnership as they persuaded George Osborne in early 2014 that the Treasury needed to harden its position, outlined in an analysis paper in April 2013, that a currency union was "highly unlikely".
The news was even worse that Sunday morning as the prime minister came down to breakfast with the Queen – on the day that the banner headline in the Sunday Times declared "Yes vote leads in Scots poll", reporting the shock YouGov survey putting independence in the lead for the first time.
This partly explains why 97% of Scots registered to vote – the highest level in Scotland or Britain since the introduction of universal suffrage – and turnout was 85%, compared with 65% at the 2010 general election.
Scots can hardly be prissy about the approach, given the national team has profited and been praised for similar against superior opposition.
English opinion is overwhelmingly in favour of Scots remaining in the UK.
The people spoke and with a decided voice: in England they called for a conservative approach to social policy and economics, while in Scotland, giving the SNP a landslide, the Scots have demanded a radically different and less austere road than the rest of Britain.
But the Scots won't be the last of the many peoples demanding self-determination in a rapidly shattering old world order.
When you look back, there is a sort of political genius in being able to lose the Scots and terrify the English all at the same time.
Of course the minority views of the Greens, Ukip, the Welsh and the Scots are important, but they have to be seen in proportion to the UK as a whole.
