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Scots, as an adjective, is another word for Scottish. You meet it a lot in set names: Scots law (the law of Scotland, which is not English law), a Scots accent, a Scots pine. People also say the Scots for the people of the country. In everyday talk, Scottish is the safer all-purpose adjective; Scots feels a little more local and is at home in those fixed phrases. Though actually the same spelling is also the name of a Germanic language spoken in Scotland, a cousin of English — and that is not Scottish , which is a Celtic language. Three labels, one country, easy to tangle.
蘇格蘭的(形容詞,常出現在固定說法裡)。若當語言名,是低地蘇格蘭語,不是蘇格蘭蓋爾語。
組成Borrowed from the Scots word Scots, from Middle Scots Scottis, from Old English Scottysċ, a late form of earlier Scyttisċ, 'Scottish.' It is a doublet of Scottish: two shapes of the same old adjective.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Scotsname詞源 1/skɒts/
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A Germanic language closely related to English and descended from northern dialects of Middle English, spoken in parts of Scotland, now especially in the northeastern and southern regions of the country.
Scotsadj詞源 1/skɒts/
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Scottish.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。