Lowland Scots

The archaic sound of the Lowland Scots phrases—"we twa hae run about the braes/ and pu't the gowans fine"—gives it the ring of something both ancient and familiar, just as the song itself is about distance and proximity, about the faraway friend and the one raising a glass with you now.

Visiting an Auld Acquaintance Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011

Thus as Eric Hobsbawm tells us, the Lowland Scots appropriated and even invented the symbols of Highland culture in their bid to create a nation, and Jewish nationalists revived a dead language.

Cambodge - The Cultivation of a Nation - Review by John Tully | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context 2010

And I believe you, in turn, are confusing Highland Scots with Lowland Scots.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Declaration of Independence and the Case for Non-Ethnic Secession: 2009

His age, his size, and his bushy grey wig, with this covering on it, presented the image of a venerable senachi: and, however unfavourable to the Lowland Scots, he seemed much pleased to assume the appearance of an ancient Caledonian.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

Saxons; a strong presumption, that the Lowland Scots and the

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

He spoke French, but his accent was a peculiar blending of English and Lowland Scots.

The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004

Many of Burns 'poems are in the Lowland Scots dialect; a few are wholly in ordinary English; and some combine the two idioms.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

Kennedy spoke and wrote in Lowland Scots; he was, possibly, a graduate of the University of Glasgow, and he could boast of Stuart blood.

An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

French and Lowland Scots, and then a mixture of Lowland Scots and

An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

Self-defence compelled the order to fire, which was readily obeyed by the soldiers; the more so, because the companies selected for the service were nearly all Highlanders and Lowland Scots, whose strong national feelings had been wounded by Wilkes, in his North Briton.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr