That's a 'Happy New Year'for those who don't understand the Scots language :-) No, I don't mean gaelic, and I don't mean a dialect of English. Scots is a language in it's own right, as similiar to English as Italian is to Spanish.
The Scots have always made a big thing out of Hogmanay, even more so than Christmas. Then again, Christmas wasn't particularly liked by the Protestant Reformation, as it was too pagan and too Roman Catholic, both at the same time, and it was pretty much banned in Scotland from the 1700s until about 1950 for that reason. There is an echo of that old calvinist-puritan outlook in the modern controversy over Christmas in the US nowadays, methinks. Yet again, the puritans disapprove of people just plain having good fun. It used to be said of the calvinists that they didn't approve of sex standing up because it could lead to dancing!
Now that I have recovered sufficiently, I will try to get another actual news/opinion post done today.
May the sun always be in your face, the wind at your back, and may the De'il not find out you're dead until you've been in heaven seven years. (Old Scottish Toast.)
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