Ani-Americanism is racism

You dear benighted Star spangled boy!-as a Scot I am amazed that you think we-as United Kingdom citizens are anti-American when your National parks-Yosemite et al were founded by a Scot from Dunbar East Lothian, John Muir.Your great Princeton University was founded by Scottish divine John Witherspoon:your dollar sign thus $ was invented by John Bayne of Saint Andrews, Scotland , subsequent to his emigrating to Philadelphia(he was a Scottish printer)the people who founded and own the magazine you quote-Forbes- are immensley proud of their Scottish roots;the first teaching hospital in New York in 1772 was-brick-for brick a facsimile of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary;the man who gave you your Carnegie Hall in New York was a Fifer from Dunfermline called Andrew Carnegie: two thirds of all the best cattle ranches in Texas in 1889 were bankrolled by a Dundee, Scotland, savings and investment company.Two of your greatest soldiers-George S.Patton and Douglas MCArthur had impeccable Scottish ancestry-Patton’s kin came from Mauchline, Ayrshire, and McArthur’s ancestors from Glasgow; as did George Armstrong Custer forebears who came to the US from the Orkneys-heck 15 0f your Presidents had Scottish blood so hate you guys we Scots wouldn’t hate a country we did so much to build.
PS -ON my last visit to New York I stepped into a church near Wall Street dating back to colonial times and ther was wall plaque commemorating one of the church’s earliest pastors-who came from Kilmarnock, Scotland-so listen Mac! -hate America! -we Scots gifted so much of it to you. Your famed Pinkerton Detective Agency was founded by Alan Pinkerton who came from Glasgow-no not Glasgow, Indiana, but Glasgow, Scotland

Spelling

To improve your English and spelling here is the longest word in the English language-Flauccipaucinihilipilification. It means ‘this estimate is worthless’ so why don’t you- when you spy wrong spelling post this word to the culprit.
Also, my Belgian friend, here are the more difficult pronunciation words in English/British place names:
Milngavie-near Glasgow is pronounced ‘Mulguy’
Stathaven in Scotland is ‘Straven’
Belvoir in England is Beevor’Towcester’ is Toaster;Bicester is ‘Bister’ ‘Subtle’ is pronounced ‘suttle’ and some eccentric English chaps pronounce the christian name-Ralph as ‘Rafe’ but in Scotland we say ‘Ralf. Similarly, ‘English folk call anyone with the surname -ST.John’ -Singen’ but we Scots say ‘Saint John’No wonder foreign people get confused by English!.

north/south divide-Mongu

Don’t forget the North-South divide between Scotland and England. Never mind Italy!.Here in Caledonia, English baiting is a national pastime and when England get whacked at football it is like Mardi Gras night in New Orleans up here in Scotland!.
Still with all the Jocks in Tony Blair’s government we are doing not badly.

‘War Lover’ Movie

Alexis,
The War Lover’ movie is available in some retail outlets in the United Kingdom on VHS but i don’t know-do Dutch videos use the same PAL system as that used in Britain?
Incidentally, the Canadian actor Al Waxman who played the police boss of ‘Cagney and Lacey’ on American tv is one of Steve McQueen(the eponymous ‘War Lover’s) crew in this black and white movie.

Burntisland Hawker Hurricane

Has anyone any info on the Hawker Hurricane which lies off the Fife coastal town of Burntisland in deep water in the Firth of forth between Edinburgh and Burntisland?
It wa foubnd several years ago in deep silt on the seabed by scubs divers searching for King Charles I’s treasure ship which foundered off Burntisland in the 17th century.