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.

English with Hungarian undertones. My bf is Scottish, does that count?

Think there is a lot of regional variations in words used.

I did go through a period where even water got called juice. There were (complicated) reasons.

Aye,if. You like scotland that's good enough long distance

Well, I'm Polish. Which is like Scottish.

But I drink like a Southerner
One Pimms and I'm woohoo!

Scottish and away to have a glass of juice. (squash)

I wouldn't call coke or lemonade juice.

Ginger is a carbonated drink
Juice is diluting squash

I don't find either Frankie Boyle or Billy Conollley (? Spelling that looks weird) in the least bit funny.

There was however a terrifically funny play on BBC Scotland last Hogmanay with Daniella Nardini, Arabella Weir and Gary Tank Commander which had me weeping with laughter.

I never called it ginger but a lot of people around me did. I call it fizzy juice

Scottish and living in Scotland. Regularly bemused and flummoxed by thread on here about English schools. What a very strange variety of systems you have down there. It sounds so stressful. Up here the vast majority of our Dc go to their local primary then their local High School and us parents don't give it much thought!

I wonder how the regional language differences compare to other areas of the UK?

Juice = fizzy drink! In the Edinburgh area. Possibly the same radius as chip shop sauce.
ginger is Glasgow.

Juice comes from fruit. Diluting drinks are squash. Lemonade used to be any sweet carbonated drink that wasn't Coke but it's now sweetened water and lemon juice.

I've never heard squash called "juice"

Scottish here. But then most of the people who were drawn to this thread saw the word "Scottish" in the title of the post, no?

Where I grew up most people went to the local school, a few went private. Where I live now there are a lot of placing requests and there are also religious schools which I don't remember from when I was young(er)

Phaedra - Two Doors Down. It was great.

Scottish too

You could have something there Poppy

Agreed the English school system is weird.

My son and I started in one school in Primary 1 going right through to Secondary 6. Husband did something different but he's from Clydebank.

Scottish, ya bass.

Same school all the way through? I went to local primary and was then bussed into town for the secondary that local primaries fed into.