發現兩則跟蘇格蘭有關的新聞....
第一則是說 "Ewan McGregor" 這個名字是眾蘇格蘭名人中最蘇格蘭的一個
(但我看不懂他們到底是怎麼研究的, 應該是從語言學的角度吧)
Daily Record NEWS
14 July 2007
SORRY SEAN.. EWAN'S MORE SCOTS
007 loses out in 44m names study
By Charlie Gall
EWAN McGregor has beaten Sir Sean Connery to the title of celebrity with the
most Scottish name.
The Star Wars actor's name was judged to be more Scottish than the Hollywood
legend's in a new study.
And both Sean and comic Billy Connolly were judged to have less Scottish
names than English Tory leader David Cameron.
The findings were the result of research by marketing experts CACI.
They gave "Scottishness" points to the first names and surnames of 44million
adults in the UK.
Using their formula, Ewan scored 270 points, while Sean and Billy got only
34.
Old Etonian Cameron, who has Scottish ancestors, managed a score of 153.
CACI also came up with the names that are theoretically the most Scottish it
is possible to have.
For men, it is Murdo MacRitchie and for women, Angusina MacEachen.
A real Murdo MacRitchie, a 71-year-old retired sailor who lives on the Isle
of Lewis, said: "It's just my name and I've got to live with it."
There are no Angusina MacEachens on the electoral roll.
HOW THEY RATED
Celebrities Score
Ewan McGregor 270
Annie Lennox 181
James McAvoy 137
Robert Carlyle 131
Shirley Manson 121
Andy Cameron 90
Rod Stewart 86
Nick Nairn 74
Billy Connolly 34
Sean Connery 34
第二則新聞....嗯....只是拿來分享一下蘇格蘭還有哪些名產....
16 July 2007
MY TARTAN SPECIALS
George Galloway
A MAGAZINE just asked me, as a "famous Scot", a series of questions about our
fair land, and you can save yourselves buying it by reading the answers here.
My favourite place in Scotland is Glencoe, where the ghosts of the murdered
MacDonalds, killed in their beds by the treacherous Campbells, seem to
whisper in the mist.
My favourite Scottish author is a harder one. Robert Louis Stevenson's
Treasure Island, Kidnapped and his Child's Garden of Verse are hard to beat.
And his Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has been a strange case I've come across often
in my life. And Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Hugh MacDiarmid, Lewis Grassic
Gibbon, James Kelman, Jeff Torrington and Irvine Welsh would all be in
anybody's top 10.
My favourite Scots actor is difficult too. Sir Sean is obvious, but fellow
Dundonian Brian Cox is a "rerr" turn, if a bit "up himself" (I once modestly
dubbed him the "most famous" Dundonian and he made the mistake of believing
his own publicity).
I also rate Alan Cumming - who as one of Victor and Barry played at my
victory party, gratis, 20 years ago in Partick Burgh Halls - Ewan McGregor,
Denis Lawson, Robert Carlyle, Alastair Sim, Peter Mullan.
My best Scottish film is impossible too; My Name is Joe, the original Rob
Roy, Trainspotting Sweet Sixteen, Ae Fond Kiss, Tunes of Glory and The Prime
of Miss Jean Brodie are among the best, as are Culloden by Peter Watkins or
anything by Bill Forsyth.
Come to think of think of it I don't know how I'm going to answer these
questions. I need your help at g.galloway@dailyrecord.co.uk
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