JOST A MON

The idle ramblings of a Jack of some trades, Master of none

Sep 16, 2007

A Scottish Empire?

Looks like the Scots decided to join the great land grab that exercised the European powers in the 17th century. Fortunately for the lovers of the Spanish imperium (if any), they failed, otherwise, as Jim Malcolm, Scot and former British Ambassador to Panama said:
"If the Scots had been successful the canal might have been constructed in Darien, by Panamanians speaking English in a lowland Scots dialect!"

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