Are there a disproportionate amount of Scots on MN?

[charliesp]

AIBU in thinking there is a disproportionately large amount of Scots on MN? Before I continue, there is absolutely nothing 'wrong' with this, just an observation.

I very often see on the "what are you doing today" threads posted on a Sunday that they are going to the supermarket at 9am... where England and Wales don't have extended Sunday trading hours. Or lots of "I'll be voting SNP at the general election".

Anyone else noticed this? I wonder what the percentage of active users are English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, and others?

Another Irvine Central baby 👋
Now in South Lanarkshire 👋
Also sound like Lorraine Kelly 👋
Definitely voting SNP 👋

Well there’s a lot of us now... you set off some sort of klaxon look, lol.

But also, you end up having to say it a lot, shops, school years and systems, student loans, politics... all work differently, just to name a few, so I think we’re just forever having to announce we’re Scottish or you get weird answers as the default is that everything works like it does in England.

Live in West Lothian, from Oban... haven’t decided who I’m voting for yet btw...

What happened to Scottishmommy

< wonders what vittles to provide at Clan gathering > blackandwhitepublishing.com/maw-broons-cookbook-gift-pack.html

Square sausages
White pudding
Plain and Pan bread
Scottish breakfast rolls - well fired
Empire biscuits
Ayrshire bacon
Tablet
Macaroon bars

There are some ideas for the clan gathering.....

What's it called- Cumbernauld!

This thread i making me nostalgic. I'm not a Scot but my dad was (born in William Smellie) and we lived in the west highlands for 12 years before I left to study in Stirling then briefly live in Edinburgh.

I've been in Devon for 14 years now and I miss Scotland. Can I lurk here for the chat please?

Live in West Lothian, from Oban... haven’t decided who I’m voting for yet btw...

Oh, that's one of the first places I've ever visited in Scotland.
Did so with my parents and it will therefore probably always have a special place in my heart. You've just reminded me of it again thanks :)

I have always felt a bit distant or from mumsnet, not now! There's a squad of you born in the hospital 5 bus stops away from ma hoose! A mawsnet klaxon call.
@Likethebattle I suppose there are loads of changes here, but you don't really notice when you are in amongst it, like boiling a frog. I've never left and I still stay on the guid side of the watter brig.

There are some ideas for the clan gathering.....

I'll bring some rowies and tattie scones

Waving from South lanarkshire too .

Waving from S.E Borders.
I remember the NB too.
I wore pokies as a barn.
Born in Simpsons.

I agree here might seem to be a lot of Scots here but having to explain we don't all live in England re school hols, school years, Halloween especially Halloween and other stuff thats different up.here only makes us more noticeable.
I love it when posters write in Scots words it seems much friendlier to.me😁
Love this song sums up some of the attitudes to writing Scottish words on here by some posters (not on this thread btw)

Tablet .
There has to be tablet.

West Dunbartonshire here... born in the Vale of Leven. Sounds lovely doesn't it. I'm actually from the same town as Kevin Bridges. He's from the rough bit. I'm from the other rough bit Anybody heard his latest one? I loved "enjoy your night mate" - as in, the thing you say to the ranting drunken nutter that buttonholes you in a pub and shares their all their theories about the government being infiltrated by the Illuminati and the Freemasons. Yes, that is an actual rant that I've stood through.

God, I miss Glasgow. I really miss getting on the bus and people just sharing their life story with you. I live in Germany now and you can't do that because people think you want to be their best mate and they get really off with you when a conversation where you spoke honestly about something isn't immediately followed up with like other friendship overtures. I've pissed a good few people off like that. It's a shame.

I love it when posters write in Scots words it seems much friendlier to me

Somebody on a thread the other day said "and then she never looked the road I was on" and someone else was like "what does that mean" and the first poster apologised and I thought, don't apologise, it's dialect, it's cool!

I'm on a mission to increase knowledge of Scottish words, where one word does the work of two or more in English English

I've introduced a fair few people to to thole something

Bellshill born SNP voter from Ally McCoist’s neck of the woods.

Proud that we can use two positives to make a negative “Aye, right”

I was born in Rottenrow.

So was DH, and I now work on Rottenrow at the uni

amused I hate driving up and down that hill.

I'll bring cranachan to the gathering. We used to pick raspberries during the summer when I was wee.

I make brilliant tablet

Montrose Street must be the steepest street in Glasgow!

Although as a student, I found Scott Street in heels difficult too either coming or going to The Cotton Club or the Art School

I can't believe there are so many South Lanarkshire people on here. God's Own Country! Some farmers I know emigrated to the Borders and when they come back they say they've come back to Civilisation.

@amusedbush I genuinely thought that hill would finish me off when I was at uni.

I was born in Dr Gray's!
My poor mother was asked if she had had a Quinie or a Loon and had nfi what they were talking about

I don't have the accent, but I do say things in my BBC accent which make people look oddly at me, like "How?" instead of "Why?" or ask folks to "remember and do" xyz instead of "remember to..."

I am near Dundee now ... ah'll tek twa stek bridies an an ingin een an ah

I like "did ye, aye?" and "aye, right"

And I also make fabulous tablet since prising the recipe out of a wee wimmin at werk a work colleague