England fans declare: We will outdrink the Scots in Boston

England’s fans declared they had one ambition as they piled into Boston before their second World Cup match: to outdrink ...

Boston Is Full of Joy and Low on Beer. Blame the Scots.

Cameron Caswell, 23, of Oxton, Scotland, spent the off-day on Tuesday in Boston, day-drinking Tennent’s Lager and watching ...
The New York Times

The World Cup’s Best Party Is Raging in Miami

It’s Brazil versus Scotland in the South Florida sun. By Patricia Mazzei Reporting from Miami Beach What do you get when legions of singing Scots wearing kilts meet samba-dancing Brazilians in canary ...
The Conversation

Scotland Decides ’14: are Scots too sensitive?

Mix the Scots and sport and you’re bound to end up with trouble. Just ask William Hague, who gaffed this week that Team GB would break a leg at next month’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow – forgetting ...
The Economist

Is Scots a language, or merely a dialect?

AS THEY CLEARED their heads after Burns Night on January 25th, having celebrated their national poet with whisky and haggis, another hangover loomed for Scots in less than a week’s time. A majority of ...