I believe yours was the first political post, Sticks. Also, it's incorrect. Since we're discussing a national anthem, perhaps you'd like to consider the difference between a nation and a country.

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The UK doesn't have a national anthem. God Save the Queen is just a useful song for sports matches.

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It's never been officially made the national anthem, but this is the only way in which it's not regarded as one. Culturally, it is generally accepted. In fact, I'd bet most UK citizens don't even know that it's not official.

It's only of use for sports matches where people or teams represent the UK - like at the Olympics, for example. Its use for English football matches, for example, is offensive to the rest of the UK. England, as per the other thread, should really adopt its own national anthem, official or not, for those circumstances.

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Do you know when it became so? In the 18th century it seems to have been common enough for Scots to refer to themselves as "Scotch": I seem to remember Boswell doing it, for instance, though of course he was so apologetic about being a Scot that he's perhaps not typical.

Same here. There are usages in which "Scots" is more customary ("the guid Scots tongue"), but I doubt anyone would get upset at a deviation from that. And then there's the thing about saying "King (or Queen) of Scots", rather than "... of Scotland"; but it isn't a particular biggie.

That's interesting. They've always been the "Wade and Caulfeild roads" in our house, though I might now need to get the book out to point out which were which, outside of the Dunkeld-Dalwhinnie axis.

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I think it started to decline in the 19th century. Very slowly, I assume, since the term is often still used by non-Scots.
They were always just Wade's Roads in my childhood house and at school, but that could be simply because the roads in that area were indeed made by Wade. It's difficult to tell which is which, but you may find these old maps useful and/or interesting.

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How about the theme from Highlander?

One kinda hit me as I was reading this, but I doubt the mods would look kindly on sheep jokes, to say nothing of the Scottish among us.

Oooh, old maps! My thing. Thanks!
If you're interested, you might care to hunt down A Walker's Companion to the Wade Roads, by Joan & Arthur Baker, ISBN 0906664187. It's correctly named, since it deals only with the roads built under Wade's superintendency, and it gives much detail along the length of each road.
From that, I find a snippet that might be useful for your Wikipedia page on Caulfeild: "His former assistant and successor as road builder in the Highlands, William Caulfeild thought so highly of him that he named his son, Wade Toby after him. The tradition is still maintained in the Caulfeild family." [Sic throughout with regard to those commas, I'm afraid].

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Land of Hope and Glory is used during the Commonwealth games because God Save the Queen is the anthem of the games themselves. Is God Save the Queen used during Six Nation? That would seem weird for a competition where half of the nations are UK home nations and another one includes another part of it.

There is a campaign to get Jerusalem adopted as the English national anthem.

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I've no idea, I'm not a fan of rugby (except Scotland matches). I'm pretty sure God Save The Queen is used at English international football matches, though. Good to see the resurgence of the George Cross flag at those kind of events.

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Cool. By the way, I walked (what I could trace of) the military road from Ft William to Ft Augustus last summer.

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I knew I'd read something about this recently. Here we go. From The Oxford Guide to World English:Grant Hutchison

I'm pretty sure Scotch Terrier is almost exclusively Scottish Terrier now.

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I dunno much about the various choices but I
have a hankering to hear a young lass in
tartan singing "Keep right on to the end
of the road". Might work with the right
backing and a warmed up audience.

Scots and Scottish come from the same root in Old then Middle English, the latter acquiring the same suffix as Welsh, English, Irish etc., merely to accomodate the famously monoglot English.
Of course, 'scotch' has totally different and negative meanings, to frustrate and to slash or wound. Perhaps that influenced 19th century Scots, exceot where qualified by being an adjective, and of a well known product.

John

If we're looking for a Scottish song with the same function, how about We Hate Jimmy Hill?

'Sex machine' by James Brown. If ANY country made that their national anthem I'd move there tomorrow :P:

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And for the record the Scots must already have something because they don't play God Save the Queen when their sporting teams compete (it's something else but i cant really catch the tune or lyrics)

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