To believe that a very high % of mumsnetters are Scottish

[greedygal]

I get this impression and have no idea why - is this my imagination or is this the case?

Where are you originally from?

I am thoroughly English.

Scottish here an' aw! Michty, there's hunners o' us!

scottishmummy I've been catching up with this thread, you made a mistake - there isn't a 't' in Blan'ir

I'm originally from EK, it was mum, dad, nana and papa for us.
Were all Jock Tamsons bairns anyway.

Oh and someone upthread mentioned Paisley Boys - Paulo Nutini anyone?

Yanbu, there seems to be a lot more than the 10% Scottishness on MN.

Scottish, and my Ma and Da where also often called "Mither" and "Feather".

Aye,I always come a cropper wi the whole Lanarkshire thing
Saying holytown marked me oot as no. Local

Definitely Paolo. Holy mother of God is that boy beautiful.

I also have a healthy crush on Kevin Bridges [grin[

Paolo, THOOSINS o us, thoosins!

fife def has it's own weird pronunciations & words

Aye, when I worked over the water in Edinburgh they hadn't heard of the word baffies.

They'll always be Mopsy and Popsy to me.

Balls.

Back aff wee Paolo!

I love Pauli nutini
And paisley obviously for the slun in the ginger bottle,Donoghue v Stevenson

I have heard of baffies.

Another Scot here but now living in middle England

I love Baffies,

For me, they are my slippers and also my comfiest pair of shoes.

I've got steak slice and potato scones in for tomorrow, anyone want to come round for brekkie?

They hadn't heard of them in Wester Hailes, Fanjo.

we are having chipolatas in our rolls with potato scone - yum. Havent had square sausage for ages

Central Scotland

Love comin hame an pittin ma baffies oan (love to come home and put my slippers on)

Ok, about half the glaswegians I've ever met went to private school, most of my Glaswegian work colleagues and my ex-bf and his brother. Must have skewed my impression though I did think I'd read it that it was quite high somewhere and that matched my personal experience. I stand corrected. I find it very strange anyway as only the super-posh paid fees where I grew up (Dumfries & Galloway) so coming to university was a bit of a shock.

Most of my colleagues have kids at private school - including the Glaswegian ones!

Sorry if this is repeated.

The stats will be in the last MN census.

Population of Scotland is around 9% of population of GB plus there will be Scots living in other places.

9-10% of MNers is going to feel like a lot but it's not a majority.

Interestingly population of London is higher, around 11% of GB.

Couldn't be bothered doing all that for breakfast - I'll go all soft southerner and have cereal.

Always 'baffies' in my house growing up. Fifer parents!

Another Scottish burd here.

In fact given that I've had two cans of Irn Bru in the last hour I think I'm even Scottisher than you lot. Am also a bit sweary.

Might have to take five points off though for not having any bevy with my Bru.