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  • After 1745, Edinburgh's Protestant institutions flourished-its courts, its church (Mr. Buchan retains the Scottishism, calling it "the Kirk" throughout) and, preeminently, its university-in part because the Catholic Stuarts had been driven from the stage, but also because Scotch Protestantism had been liberalized by the lapsed Presbyterian minister Francis Hutcheson.

    A City's Shining Moment Helps Shape Our Heritag 2003

  • My dad says “ploof”, but I think that’s maybe a Scottishism.

    better than babelfish 2007

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