open-index/open-wikipedia-markdown huggingface dataset:
Lesotho

**Lesotho** ( ), offeecially the **Kinrick o Lesotho**, is a landlocked kintra an enclave, completely surroondit bi its anly neighbourin kintra, Sooth Africae. It is juist ower  in size an haes a population slichtly ower twa million. Its caipital an lairgest ceety is Maseru. Lesotho is a member o the Commonweel o Naitions. The name *Lesotho* translates roughly intae *the land o the fowk who speak [[Sotho leid|Sesotho]]*. Aboot 40% o the population live alaw the internaitional poverty line o US $1.25 a day.

## References

## Freemit airtins
* Govrenment o Lesotho
* Published Judicial Opinions
* Judgments o the Lesotho Heich Coort
* Chief o State an Cabinet Members 
* Lesotho  frae *UCB Libraries GovPubs*
* 
* Lesotho profile frae the BBC News
* 
* Key Development Forecasts for Lesotho frae Internaitional Futurs
Sooth Africae

The **Republic o Sooth Africae** is a kintra locate on the soothren neb o the African continent. It haes mairches wi Namibie, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique an Eswatini. Lesotho is an enclave haily surroondit bi Sooth African laund. It wis originailly a colony ae the Unitit Kinrick.

## Notes


## References
Colin Macfarquhar

**Colin Macfarquhar** (1745? - 2 Aprile , 1793) wis a Scots prenter. He is weel-kent for co-foondin the Encyclopædia Britannica thegither wi Andrew Bell.
Daniel Bomberg

**Daniel Bomberg** (d. 1549) wis an aerlie prenter o beuks in the Hebrew Leid e'en thou he wis a Christian. He wis did maist o his wark in Venice atween 1516 an 1549.

He made the first Talmud an a Rabbinic Bible for the Jews that left Spain.
Dice

**Dice** are smaw thrawable objects wi multiple restin poseetions, uised for generatin random nummers. **Sice** is an auld Scots/Inglis wird fur dice wi monie sindry meanins. Ae meanin bein the side o the die wi sax paips maist aften uised bi gamblers the day yit common in the 17t century.

Ither weys the wird wis spelt is *syce*, *sise*, *sys* an *syis*.
Dogpatch USA

**Dogpatch USA** defunct theme pairk is locatit in an area kent as Marble Falls atween the ceities o Harrison an Jasper. It wis shapen efter the comic strip *Li'l Abner*, an opent in 1968.
Worldcon

**Worldcon**, or mair formal **The World Science Fiction Convention**, is the langest rinnin science feection gaitherin . It wis hauden fae 1939 tae 1941 an, efter the taiglement acause o the Unitit States jynin in Warld Weir II, ilka year syne 1946.
## References
Radio

**Weirless** or **Radio** is a communications invention uisin electromagnetic waws for tae get electronic information frae ae place tae anither athoot weirs. A transmitter sends the seegnals that's turnt intae soonds bi a receiver. The device is aften cried a "radio". It wis oreeginally uised for tae communicate atween twa fowks, but they nou uise it for tae listen tae muisic, news an collogue.

Radio programmes is transmittit ower fower frequencies: AM, FM, short waw and langwaw an aiblins ithers forby.

Italy's Guglielmo Marconi inventit the radio in the 1890s.

Radio programmes is aften transmittit throu stations.

A speicial type o radio braidcastin is satellite radio; examples o sic stations includes XM an Sirius.

The auld wey o braidcastin haes syne been renamed **terrestrial radio**.

## Fremmit airtins
*XM 
*Yahoo! Radio
Andrew Bell

**Andrew Bell** (1726 - 1809) wis a Scots prenter an co-foondit Encyclopædia Britannica wi Colin Macfarquhar.
## References
Caribbean

The **Caribbean** (or **Wast Indies**) is a group o isles in the Caribbean Sea. The region is namit efter the Caribs that bade there afore Christopher Columbus cam ower it in 1492.

## [[Kintra]]s
* Antigua an Barbuda
* Aruba
* Bahamas
* Barbados
* Cuba
* Dominica
* Dominican Republic
* Grenada
* Haiti
* Jamaica
* Puerto Rico
* Saunt Lucia
* Saunt Kitts an Nevis
* Saunt Vincent an the Grenadines
* Trinidad an Tobago

## [[Dependency|Dependencies]]
* Anguilla
* Breetish Virgin Islands
* Cayman Islands
* Netherlands Antilles
* Turks an Caicos Islands
* Unitit States Virgin Islands
Cod

A **cod** is a kynd o beddin stappit wi faem, seenthetic fills, feathers, or doun an uised aither as decoration on a couch or a lair for yer heid.
Hell

In Christianity an ither releegions **Hell** (whiles ca'd *Hecklebirnie*, *Heckiebirnie*, *The Bad Fire*, an *The Bad Place*) is whaur the scunnersome an ill fowk gangs for the efterlife. It is rin bi the Deil.
Chad

**Chad** (,  *Tshād*), offeecially kent as the **Republic o Chad**, is a landlocked kintra in central Africae. It is bordered bi Libie tae the north, Sudan tae the east, the Central African Republic tae the sooth, Cameroon an Nigerie tae the soothwast, an Niger tae the wast. Due tae its distance frae the sea an its lairgely desert climate, the kintra is whiles referred tae as the "Deid Hert o Africae".

Chad is dividit intae three major geographical regions: a desert zone in the north, an arid Sahelian belt in the centre an a mair fertile Sudanese savanna zone in the sooth. Lake Chad, efter which the kintra is named, is the lairgest wetland in Chad an the seicont lairgest in Africae. Chad's heichest peak is the Emi Koussi in the Sahara, an N'Djamena, (formerly *Fort-Lamy*), the caipital, is the lairgest ceety. Chad is hame tae ower 200 different ethnic an linguistic groups. Arabic an French are the offeecial leids. Islam an Christianity ar the maist widely practiced releegions.

Beginnin in the 7t millennium BC, human populations muivit intae the Chadian basin in great nummers. Bi the end o the 1st millennium BC, a series o states an empires rose an fell in Chad's Sahelian strip, each focused on controllin the trans-Saharan trade routes that passed throu the region. Fraunce conquered the territory bi 1920 an incorporated it as pairt o French Equatorial Africae.

In 1960 Chad obtained unthirldom unner the leadership o François Tombalbaye. Resentment towards his policies in the Muslim north culminatit in the eruption o a lang-lastin ceevil war in 1965. In 1979 the rebels conquered the caipital an put an end tae the sooth's hegemony. Housomeivver, the rebel commanders focht amangst thairsels till Hissène Habré defeatit his rivals. He wis owerthrown in 1990 bi his general Idriss Déby. Recently, the Darfur crisis in Sudan haes spilt ower the mairch an destabilised the naition, wi hunders o thoosans o Sudanese refugees livin in an aroond camps in eastren Chad.

While mony poleetical parties are active, pouer lies firmly in the haunds o Preses Déby an his poleetical pairty, thei Patriotic Salvation Movement. Chad remains plagued bi poleetical veeolence an recurrent attemptit coups d'état.

The kintra is ane o the poorest an maist corrupt kintras in the warld; maist Chadians live in poverty as subsistence herders an fermers. Syne 2003 crude ile haes acome the kintra's primary soorce o export earnings, supersedin the traditional cotton industry.

## References
Releegion

**Releegion** - whan uisit interchyngeabt wae faith ar belief seestem — bih fur ordinar definit  beliefs adae wae ra  supernaitural, saucrit, ar divine; an ra moral codets, practicets, vailets, institutionts an reetuals associate wae  sic beliefs. In thir  braid sense  fowk hae definit hit  ra  hail tot o tollts giit tae expoond bodyts rael  wae  ra.  Inae ra coorse o ra tilcom ae releegion, hit hae taen mony formts inae sindry ra cultoorts an ra bodyets. Antrin ra tidts, ra wird "releegion"  uised for tae designate whit wad bih mair guid describit  "organized releegion" – they bih, an organisation o fowk uphaudin ra daeunts o  releegion, aften tak the form o ra legal entity. Inae thare bih mony  releegions inae ra warld ra  dae.

Thir ideas anent the basic structur o the warld canna be studied uisin juist the scienteific method.

Releegions ettles tae repone tae speirins lik "Whaur did the warld come frae?" an "Whit happens tae us efter we dee?" Whan answers tae thir speirins is fand, fowk sterts new releegions or eiks thair beliefs tae auld anes. Monie releegions believes in supernaitural beins sic as speerits, deils, angels, gods or God, that can influence fowk an the warld. Fowk that writes anent or teaches a releegion says thay gat thair ideas frae a supernaitural bein.

Monie releegions is gey auld, but some fowk shapes new anes whan thay dinna lik the ideas o the auld anes. Things conseidert important bi releegions is cryed saucrit or halie. Monie o thaim haes saucrit beuks (the Bible bein an exemplar) that tells o thair ain main beliefs an stories.

Mony releegions believes that fowk will gae tae Heiven foriver efter thay dee, gin thay'r guid, or Hell gin thay are ill. 

Releegions aften encourages fowk tae be guid, but thay aften causes problems an aw, acause a releegion's speirins is that important tae its follaers, an it's difficult tae ken whit answers is richt.

Historically, whan fowk dinna accept ideas aboot ithers' releegions, or ithers micht cause problems for thair ain, confrontations an fechts arises atween thaim.

Monie releegions haes biggins for thair follaers tae meet. Dependin on the releegion, thay micht be cryed kirks, chaipels, temples, mosques, shrines, or seenagogues. Monie o the warld's auldest biggins is releegious.

## Table

**Medium-sized religions**

## Leet o releegions o the warld
* Bahá'í Faith
* Buddhism
* Christianity
** Catholicism
** Kirk o Scotland
** Baptists
* Hinduism
* Islam
* Jainism
* Judaism
* Latter Day Saunt muivement
* Scientology
* Shinto
* Sikhism
* Sufism
* Taoism
* Unitarian Universalism
* Voodoo
* Wicca
* Yoga
* Zoroastrianism

## Notes


## References

## Fremmit airtins
* ReligionFacts.com 
* http://www.usome.com
* American Religion Data Archive
* History of Religion
Poundland

**Poundland** is a shop locatit in the UK that sells ivery hott for ae poond.

## Steids
Thare is twa-three shops locatit Scotland includin a puckle in Glesca an Dundee. For a leet o ither locations keek here.
Dromore, Coonty Doun

**Dromore** (frae Erse *Droim Mór* meinin "mukkil rig") is a wee toun in Coonty Doun, Northren Ireland. Hit byds 19 mile sooth-wast o Belfast, on the A1 Belfast ti Dublin road. Hit haed 4,968 indwallers at the tyd o the 2001 Census an is in the Bannbrig Destrict.

The toun's middil is kent Mercat Square, whilk haes a set o stocks. Hit is in an auld linen-makin aurie. A weil-haint motte-an-bailey is tae the aest o the toun centur an thar is a mukkil ringforth anaw.

## Fremmit airtins
*Dromore Site
Central Catholic Library

**Central Catholic Library** is a librar  locatit in Dublin an foondit bi Fr. Stephen Brown, SJ in 1922.

Central Catholic Library haes owre 100,000 beuks that kivers aw areas o Catholic life, an is intendit tae eddicate the laity.

## Wabsteid
*Catholiclibrary.ie
Pewl

The **pewl** or white maw (*Larus argentatus*), whiles kent as the willie gou or gray willie an aw,  is a sea-bird fund on the shores that eats fish an ither peedie ainimals sic as partans an is thocht tae be awfu gleg.
Aquafina

**Aquafina** is a non-carbonatit bottelt watter made bi PepsiCo. First bein distributit in Wichita, Kansas in 1994, it is nou distributit athort the hail o the Unitit States, an haes syne 2003, become the Unitit States' tap-sellin bottelt watter kenmerk. The watter is maistlins gotten fae muneecipal cran watter that gaes throu an extensive purifeecation process that includes charcoal filtration, reverse osmosis an ozonation yo yo rbd.

Aquafina is selt in 500-mL, 20-unce, 24-unce, 1-litre, an 1.5-litre bottles.
Voss (watter)

**Voss** is a kenmerk o bottelt watter fae Norrowey selt in monie kintras includin the Unitit States an the Unitit Kinrick  an is kent for commin fae a "virgin aquifer shielded" lockit for centuries unner ice. The product's leuk is endue tae Calvin Klein.

## Fremmit airtins
*Voss's wabsteid
Deep River Rock

**Deep River Rock** is the kenmerk gien tae watter made bi *Coca Cola Bottlers Ulster Ltd*. The kenmerk hauds monie sizes o watter bottles includin 200ml & 1Ltr Gless, 330ml, 500ml, 750ml & 2Ltr PET & 19Ltr Watter Cuiler tank. Selt in lown, sparklin an 'funky' gust variants it 's the best sellin watter in Northren Ireland.
Church of Our Lady & St David

The **Church of Our Lady & St. David** is a Roman Catholic Pairish Kirk in Coonty Kildare, Ireland datin fae 1827 that isna uised the nou acause o a Kirk opent on the ither side o Ballycane.
LIFE

**LIFE** is a UK chairity that ettles tae fend unborn bairns an young weemen that needs financial (upkeep) an moral help. For tae accomplish this thay aften gies tauks aboot abortion, clonin, IVF, teenage sexual heal an relationships.

## Fremmit Airtins
Thair Wabsteid
British Weights and Measures Association

***British Weights and Measures Association*** is an organisation that ettles tae uphaud the auld Breetish or Imperial Meisurments agin the Metric Seestem. Thay aften threap that fowk can uise the metric seestem gin thay want but it shoudna be forced upo society.

Thir fowk is kent forby as "Metric Mairtyrs".

It isna a creeminal offence tae sell guids in imperial. Trokers is alloued tae shaw wechts an prices in baith imperial an metric but no juist imperial theirlane. Consumers can conteena tae speir efter the quantity they're efter buyin in punds an unces.

*Stane
*SI
*Litre
*Kilogram
*Metre

## Fremmit Airtins

BMWA's offeecial wabsteid
Hermann Broch

**Hermann Broch** (born 1 November 1886 in Vienna, dee'd 30 Mey 1951 in New Haven, Connecticut) wis an Austrian writer, ane o the foremaist Modernists. He wrat *Der Tod des Vergil* ("The Daith o Vergil").
German Naitional Leebrary

**Die Deutsche Bibliothek** (in Scots leeterally "the German librar") is the naitional leebrary o Germany.

It wis staiblisht in 1990 ootthrou the reunification o Wast an East Germany bi mergin the Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig (foondit 1912) an the Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main (foondit 1947).
St. Francis Xavier's Roman Catholic Church

**St. Francis Xavier's Roman Catholic Church** is a church in Fawkirk, in the auld coonty o Stirlingshire in Scotland. It wis foondit bi Father Maclachlan. The auld church, lang syne demolisht, wis designt bi the Dunblane airchitect William Stirling, an consecratit on the 28t o Mey 1843.  

The nu church picturt aboon wis designt bi Alexander Ritchie Conlon atween 1958-1960. 

## Wabsteid

St. Francis Xavier's Roman Catholic Church 

## References
W.H. Smith Ltd

**W.H. Smith Ltd** is a beuk shop kent for thair monie locations aw ower the UK.

Thay are kent for sellin DVDs, CDs, Magazines, an Sweeties. Forby thon they rent oot DVDs.

## References

## Fremmit Airtins
W.H. Smith Ltd
Transformer

A **transformer** is a static electrical device that transfers energy bi inductive couplin atween its windin circuits. A varyin current in the *primary* windin creates a varyin magnetic flux in the transformer's core an thus a varyin magnetic flux through the *seicontary* windin. This varyin magnetic flux induces a varyin electromotive force (emf) or voltage in the seicontary windin. Transformers can be uised tae vary the relative voltage o circuits or isolate them, or baith.

Transformers range in size frae thumbnail-sized uised in microphones tae units wichin hundrits o tons interconnectin the pouer grid.  A wide range o transformer designs are uised in electronic an electric pouer applications. Transformers are essential for the transmission, distreibution, an utilization o electrical energy.

## References
The Sacred Heart Church

**The Sacred Heart Church** is a Catholic kirk locatit in Wigtoun on Sooth Main Street. It is a kirk o the Roman Catholic Diocese o Gallowa.

A Gothic early Inglis style, brick kirk bi Edinburgh airchitect **John Garden Brown** biggit in 1879.

Cruciform wi a bellcote on the sooth gable, it consists o a nave, apse, north an  sooth transepts,  sacristy an seats aboot 300. The altar wis made bi M. Poussielgue-Rusand,  o Paris. The tot cost o the building wis aboot £1,500.

The fower lancet windaes oan the facade support a niche containing a statue o the Lord Jesus Christ.

The kirk is yin o anly twa biggins, baith kirks,  kennt tae hae been biggit bi the architect, whae deid age 27.

The kirk is forby uist as a venue throu the Wigtown Book Festival.

It is listed Category **C**(**S)**

## Offeecial Wabsteid

http://www.rckirkcudbright.org.uk/wigtown/4589659879 

## References
Malmesbury

**Malmesbury** is a toun lee'n naur-haund sax mile nor' o Junction 17 o the M4 motorwey, on the soothern mairch o the Cotswolds. It is the auldest *borough* in Ingland, haudin a chairter gien bi Alfred the Great.

Malmesbury's local Catholic kirk is St. Aldhelm's.

## References

## Fremmit airtins
*Yourguide.org.uk Malmesbury
Ann Widdecombe

**Ann Noreen Widdecombe** (born 4 October 1947) is an Inglis politeecian, an a member o the Unitit Kinrick pairlament at Wastmeenster, representin the Conservative Pairty (UK).  She represents the consteetuency o Maidstone an the Weald in the Hoose o Commons.
North Ayrshire

**North Ayrshire** () is ane o the 32 cooncil areas o Scotland. It ligs alang the coast o the Firth o Clyde an haes mairches wi East Ayrshire til the eist, Sooth Ayrshire til the sooth, Inverclyde til the north an Renfrewshire til the nor'eist. It is made-up o the Isle o Arran, the Cumbrae Isles an pairt o the mainland o the Scots Lawlands.

The cooncil area wis shapit in 1996 as an eftirganger til the destrik o Cunninghame, whilk haed the same mairches. The cooncil heidsteid is in Irvine, whilk is the mukkilest toun. Anaw, North Ayrshire inhauds the touns o Ardrussan, Beithe, Dawry, Kilbirnie, Kilwinnin, Lairgs, Saulcoats, Skelmorlie, Stinson, an Wast Kilbride.
M74 motorwey

The **M74** is a motorwey in Scotland. It stairts in the sooth-wast o Glesca an rins sooth. Aboot hauf the wey tae Ingland, it becomes the A74 (M). 

At the northren end (in Glesca) the motorwey jynes the M8. At the soothren end (at the mairch wi Ingland) it micht be jyned tae the M6.

## References
Cape o Guid Howp

The **Cape o Guid Howp** (, Dutch: , ) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast o the Cape Peninsula, Sooth Africae.
Thare is a misconception that the Cape o Guid Howp is the soothren tip o Africae, acause it wis ance believed tae be the dividin point atween the Atlantic an Indian Oceans. In fact, the soothrenmaist point is Cape Agulhas, aboot 150&nbsp;kilometres (90&nbsp;mi) tae the east-sootheast. The Atlantic an Indian oceans meet at the point whaur the warm-watter Agulhas current meets the cauld-watter Benguela current an turns back on itsela point that fluctuates atween Cape Agulhas an Cape Point, aboot ane kilometre east o the Cape o Guid Howp.

When follaein the wastren side o the African coastline frae the equator, housomeivver, the Cape o Guid Howp marks the point whaur a ship begins tae traivel mair eastward than soothward. Sicweys the first roondin o the cape in 1488 bi Portuguese splorer Bartolomeu Dias wis a milestane in the attempts bi the Portuguese tae establish direct tred relations wi the Far East. Dias cried the cape *Cabo das Tormentas*. "Cape o Tempests" wis the oreeginal name o the "Cape o Guid Howp."
Draigon

A **draigon** is a lairge, serpent-lik leegendar craitur that appears in the fowklair o mony culturs aroond the warld. Beliefs aboot draigons vary drastically bi region, but draigons in wastren culturs syne the Heich Middle Ages hae eften been depictit as weenged, horned, fower-legged, an capable o braithin fire. Draigons in eastren culturs are uisually depictit as wingless, fower-legged, serpentine craiturs wi abuin-average intelligence.

The earliest attestit draigons resemmle giant snakes. Draigon-lik craiturs are first descrived in the meethologies o the ancient Near East an appear in auncient Mesopotamie airt an leeteratur. Stories aboot storm-gods slayin giant serpents occur ootthrou nearly aw Indo-European an Near Eastren mythologies. Famous prototeepical draigons include the *[[mušḫuššu]]* o auncient Mesopotamie, Apep in Egyptian meethologie, Vṛtra in the *[[Rigveda]]*, the Leviathan in the Ebreu Bible, Python, Ladon, Wyvern, an the Lernaean Hydra in Greek meethologie, Jörmungandr, Níðhöggr, an Fafnir in Norse meethologie, an the draigon frae *[[Beowulf]]*.

The popular wastren eemage o a draigon as weenged, fower-legged, an capable o braithin fire is an invention o the Heich Middle Ages based on a conflation o earlier draigons frae different tradeetions. In wastren cultures, draigons are portrayed as monsters tae be tamed or owercome, uisually bi saunts or cultur heroes, as in the popular leegend o Saunt George an the Draigon. Thay are eften said tae hae ravenous appetites an tae live in caves, whaur thay huird treisur. Thir draigons appear frequently in wastren fantasie leeteratur, includin *[[The Hobbit]]* bi J. R. R. Tolkien, the *[[Harry Potter]]* series bi J. K. Rowling, an *[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]* bi George R. R. Martin.

The wird "draigon" haes an aw come tae be applee'd tae the Cheenese *lung* (龍, Pinyin *long*), that are associatit wi good fortuin an are thocht tae hae pouer ower rain. Draigons an thair associations wi rain are the soorce o the Cheenese customs o draigon dancin an draigon boat racin. Mony East Asie deities an demigods hae dragons as thair personal moonts or companions. Draigons war an aw identifee'd wi the Emperor o Cheenae, that, in later Cheenese imperial history, wis the anerly ane permittit tae hae draigons on his hoose, cleidin, or personal airticles.
Hivy (beer)

**Hivy** is the tradeitional thick, daurk, strang beer o Scotland. Waiker Scots ales is cryed **licht**, an isna as common.

Aatho it's richt sert at room temperatur, it's aften sert chilled the day, in bottles, cans, pints or hauf-pints. Hivy is a hertie beer, kin o sweet, less shairp nor some ither kinds o ale.

## The ''shillin'' gradin seestem
Hivy is gradit bi the *[[shillin]]* unner a seestem uised syne the 1870s for tae shaw the amoont o alcohol: the heicher the shillin merk */-* is, the stranger or "hivier" the beer is.

Baith o the maist weel-kent Scots breweries, McEwan’s an Tennents, maks monie diffferent hivies: McEwan’s Special an Tennent’s Velvet is kinds o *70/-* ale, the biggest seller.

The *80/-* varieties is mair rich and flavourfu. The maist notit mass-mercat version is McEwan's Export, packaged in its distinctive reid livery. It's cryed *[[export]]* acause Scots brewers wis the first tae perfect the technique o *[[India Pale Ale]]*, that first alloued beer to be transportit ower lang distances, oreiginally tae Indie.

The *90/-* varieties shuid be teuk in moderation an traet wi respect. 

*60/-* isna classifee'd as *hivy*, but as *licht*. It's mair for a niche mercat, but it's gey refreshin in the simmer.

Forbye the mass-produced kenmerks, the'r plenty hivies makkit bi smaa, unthirlt brewers:
*Caledonian Brewery, Embra, operates frae Victorian era biggins uisin muckle o thair oreiginal graith an gear, includin the aesome direct-fired coppers left in the Unitit Kinrick
*Belhaven, Dunbar
*Broughton Ales, Scots Mairches, maks the Greenmantle hivy

Local micro-breweries is beginnin tae kythe again aa ower the kintra, for exemplar at Aviemore, the Black Isle, Arran, Skye, Orkney an Shetland. 

## Wee hivy
The'r a specialised, gey strang (6.0-10.0% abv) variety cryed **wee heavy** or **scotch ale**, that's gradit at *160/-*, an that tradeitionally gaes throu a lang byle in the kettle for caramelisation tae happen. This maks a copper-coloured brew. Compared wi ither hivies thay ar sweeter an mair fou-bodied, wi a roastit maut gust. Tradeitionally sert in a thristle-shapit gless, near-haund aa o it is export, maistlins tae Belgium. A *[[scotch]]* in Brussels means ane o thae smaa, strang Scots beers, no a whisky.

## Fremmit airtins
* http://eatscotland.visitscotland.com/scottish_food/drink/309810/
The Hop

**St Margaret's Hup**, kent locally as **The Hop**, is a clachan in the Orkney Islands, situate aff the north-aest coast o Scotland. It is Orkney's third maist muckle settlement, efter Kirkwa an Stromness. It haes a population o aboot 550, an is placed at the heid o a sheltered bey at the north end o Sooth Ronaldsay, aff Water Soond. It is Sooth Ronaldsay's main veelage, an is named efter Margaret o Norrowey that dee'd there. The veelage haes a primary schuil, a smaw blacksmith's museum, a nummer o shops an restaurants includin the merkit Creel Inn. A ferry service rins tae Gills Bey on the Scots mainland three times a day, wi an average time o an oor ae-wey.

It is kent for its annual Boys' Plouin Match an aw, a local tradeetion whaur young lads plous in the saunds at the nearby Saund o Wricht, an young lasses weirs tradeetional 'horse' costumes.
Colin Fox

**Colin Fox** (born 17 Juin 1959) is the convenor o the Scots Socialist Pairty an a member o the Scots Pairlament waled fae the Lothians regional leet in 2003.  He's been ettlin for them that's gien lines bi the doctor no tae be chairged for it.

He bides in Edinburrie wi his pairtner an thair twa bairns.
Tokyo

**Tokyo** (Japanese: 東京, *Tōkyō*, "aestren caipital") is the hame tae the Japanese govrenment an the emperor, makkin it the Caipital o Japan. It is the naition's maist populous urban area an aw (12 million fowk, or aboot 10 percent o the kintra's population, bides in Tokyo), an ane o the 47 prefecturs o Japan.

## Airt
Tokyo is locate in the Kanto region on the island o Honshu. Its centre is at 35°41' North, 139°46' Aest (35.68333, 139.7667), but its borders extends tae ootlyin islands in the Paceefic Ocean, some sae hyne awa as 1,000&nbsp;km sooth o the mainlaund.

## Geography an admeenistrative diveesions
Tokyo is north-wast o Tokyo Bay, an is aboot 90&nbsp;km aest-tae-wast an 25&nbsp;km north-tae-sooth. It borders Chiba Prefectur tae the aest, Yamanashi Prefectur tae the wast, Kanagawa Prefectur tae the sooth, an Saitama Prefectur tae the north. Forby thon it conseests o islands in the Paceefic Ocean directly sooth—the Izu Islands is closest, while the Ogasawara Islands raxes ower 1,000&nbsp;km awa fae mainland Japan.

## Sister relationships

Tokyo haes elieven sister ceeties/states:

In addition, Tokyo haes a "pairtnership" agreement wi:
*  Lunnon, Unitit Kinrick.
## Varsities
* Keio Varsity
* Nihon Varsity
* Varsity o Tokyo
* Waseda Varsity

## Companies
* Sega
* Sony
* Tokyo Stock Exchynge
* NHK
* Nihon Ki-in

## References
Pape

The Bishop o Rome, whiles cried the **Pape**, is the heid o the Roman Catholic Kirk an sovereign o Vatican Ceety. The Bishop is waled by Cairdinals in whit is kent as a Papal Conclave. The current Bishop is His Haliness Pape Leo XIV, wha succeedit Pape Frauncis efter his daith in Aprile, 2025. The line o Bishop can be traced richt back tae the verra first Pape, St. Peter, wha wis appyntit bi Jesus Christ.
## Soorces
Encyclopædia Britannica

**Encyclopedia Britannica** is a weel-kent Ingles-leid onwab encyclopaedia. Hit wis umwhile furthsetten bi Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., an ither furthsetters (fur auld editions). Hit wis written bi aboot 100 fu-time editors an mair nor 4,000 contributors. The 2010 version o the 15t eedition, that haes 32 vollums an 32,640 pages, wis the last prentit edition.
Pechts

The term **Pechts** (, modern , ) refers tae the tribes that Mediterranean clessical-era writers pit in Caledonie, whit itsel comprises the pairt o praisent-day Scotland north o the Forth an Clyde.

Pecht first kythes in a panegyric written bi Eumenius in AD 297. Tho *Picti* is for ordinar taen tae mean 'pentit' or 'tattoo'd' in Laitin, the term micht hae a Celtic oreegin. The Goidelic Celts micht hae cried the Pechts *[[cruithne]]* (e.g. Auld Erse *cru(i)then-túath*, foondit on the auld Erse ruit *cruth* Early Welsh **kwriteno-teutā*) or the mair modren *pryd* or  *prydyn* as the Brythonic Celts were kent. Geoffrey o Monmouth cried tham *Huns*.

In Scots fowklore, the Scots leid is frae the Pechts, no frae Ingls. Pecht leid, the predecessor to the Scots leid, wis a Germanic leid allied tae Auld Ingls. This theory, advancit in 1710 bi Sir Robbert Sibbald remains lore amang muckle Scots speakers.

## References
Cruithne

The **Cruithne** or Cruthin wis historical fowk that dwalt in Ireland, in parteecular Ulster, in early medieval times.

Gaun by T. F. O'Rahilly's historical model, the Cruithne wis the descendants o the Priteni, that O'Rahilly argies wis the first Celtic group tae dwall in the Breetish Isles, an identifee's them as the Pechts o Scotland. They settelt in Breetain an Ireland atween 700 an 500 BC. They uised airn an spak a P-Celtic leid, cryin thirsels Priteni or Pritani, whit is aiblins the oreegin o the name "Breetain".

In Breetain thir Priteni wis absorbed bi later invaders an tint their cultural identity but in the faur north whaur they wis kent tae the Romans as Picti, or “pentit fowk,” acause o their practice o decoratin their bouk wi pent or tattoos (a haunt that had dee'd amang ither Celtic tribes at the time). In Ireland an aw, the Priteni wis tae the maist pairt absorbed bi later settlers; but a puckle o them managed tae haud on tae a meisur o cultural, gin no poleetical, independence weel intae the Christian era. Bi thon time they wis identifee'd as Cruithne, a Q-Celtic cognate o Priteni.

Amang the Cruthnian tribes that survived wis the Loíges an Fothairt in Leinster. The name o the seicont o thir tribes - modrenised as Laois - haes been revived an gien tae ane o the coonties o Leinster (syne kent as Queen's Coonty).

Cruithne is the name o the Pechts in Scots Gaelic.

Some fowk jalouses that the Scots wird *creenie* cam fae this, bein uised as a contemptous wird for a race o stumpy, daurk fowk that bade in the Rhinns o Gallowa. Fae thon it haes been applee'd tae fowk fae Ireland. A mair liklier etymology is that its juist a form o the wird *crine* meanin skrinkit. Anither wird that haes been uised for daurk haired "Irish" fowk is *[[Gossock]]s*. Some threaps this comes fae Welsh *gwasog*, a kynd o servand. That isna likely acause that means the wird maun hae survived at least nine centuries throu the Gaelic an Scots-speakin times o Gallowa.
Nether-Saxon

**Nether-Saxon** (For ordinar cryed **Nedersaksisch** in the Netherlands, **Plattdüütsch, Nedderdüütsch** or **Neddersassisch** in Germany an **Plautdietsch** by the Roushie Mennonite), is a name for the regional leid varieties o the Laich Germanic leids that's tae the maist pairt spak in the north o Germany, the sooth o Denmark an the east Netherlands. Forby, thon there's immigrant communities in a wheen airts athort the warld, sic as Canadae.

The ISO 639-2 leid code fur Nether-Saxon is nds syne Mey 2000.

## Offeecial status
Syne 1999, Nether-Saxon haes been recogneesed bi Germany as a regional leid gaun bi the European Chairter for Regional or Minority Langages.

## Dialects

** North Nether-Saxon
** Wastphalie Nether-Saxon
** Eastphalie Nether-Saxon

In Germany, North Nether-Saxon sers as a common intelligible langage on TV an Wireless programmes.

## Classification an sib tongues
Nether-Saxon is pairt o the Wast Germanic dialeck continuum.

Tae the Wast, it gangs ower intil the Laich Franconian langages that disteenguishes twa plural verbal endins, as agin the ae common verbal plural endin in Nether-Saxon.

Tae the Sooth, it gaes ower intil the Heich Germanic dialecks o Middle German that's been affectit by the Heich German consonant shift. The diveesion is for ordinar merkit at the Benrath line that traces the *maken – machen* isogloss.

Tae the East, it is neeboured by the East Laich German language.

Tae the North an Northwast, it is neebured bi Dens an bi Frisian. Merk that in Germany, Nether-Saxon haes replaced the Frisian in mony airts sae that the Saterland Frisian is hailie surroondit by Nether-Saxon.

Some clessifee the northren dialecks o Nether-Saxon thegither wi Scots, English an Frisian as the *North Sea Germanic* or Ingvaeonic leids. Houaniver, maist excludes Nether-Saxon frae that group aften cried Anglo-Frisian langages.

## History
Auld Saxon wis the forebeir o Nether-Saxon recordit fae aboot 800 til 1100.

Middle Nether-Saxon wis the forebeir o Nether-Saxon recordit fae aboot 1100 til 1500. It wis the lingua franca o the Hanseatic League, spoak aw aroun the German Ocean an the Baltic Sea.

## Fremmit airtins

* Plattmakers dictionar
* Drents dictionar
* List o Nether-Saxon dictionars
* Plattcast: Nether-Saxon podcasts 
* Streektaal-Organisatie in het Nedersaksisch Taalgebied
* Institut für niederdeutsche Sprache e.V.
* Nether-Saxon news program 
* http://www.plattmaster.de/
Republic o Ireland

**Ireland** or **Airlann** (Erse: *Éire*), deskrived as the **Republic o Ireland** (or **Republick o Airlann** in Ulstèr-Scotch) (Erse: *Poblacht na hÉireann*), is a kintra in wastren Europe, wi a population o mair nor 4 million. It maks up maist o the iland o Ireland, an haes a mairch wi Northren Ireland, pairt o the Unitit Kinrick. It is a unitar, pairlamentary republic. The legislatur, the **', consists o a [[lawer house]], **', an upper house, **', and an elected [[Preses o Ireland|Preses]] (**') that serves as the lairgely ceremonial heid o state, but wi some important pouers an duties. The heid o govrenment is the ** (Prime Meenister, leeterally 'Chief'), that is electit bi the Dáil an appointit bi the President; the Taoiseach in turn appynts ither govrenment meenisters.

The state wis creatit as the Erse Free State in 1922 as a result o the Anglo-Erse Treaty. It haed the status o Domeenion till 1937 whan a new constitution wis adoptit, in that the state wis named "Ireland" and effectively becam a republic, wi an electit non-executive preses as heid o state. It wis offeecially declared a republic in 1949, follaein the Republic of Ireland Act 1948. Ireland becam a member o the Unitit Naitions in December 1955. It jynt the European Economic Community (EEC), the predecessor o the European Union, in 1973. The state haed na formal relations wi Northren Ireland for maist o the twentiet century, but in the 1980s an 1990s the Breetish an Erse govrenments wirkit wi the Northren Ireland pairties taewart a resolution tae "the Tribbles". Syne the signin o the Guid Fryday Greement in 1998, the Erse govrenment an Northren Ireland Executive hae co-operatit on a nummer o policy auries unner the North-Sooth Meenisterial Cooncil creatit bi the Greement.

Ireland ranks amang the tap twenty-five walthiest kintras in the warld in terms o GDP per capita, an as the tent maist prosperous kintra in the warld accordin tae The Legatum Prosperity Index 2015. Efter jynin the EEC, Ireland enactit a series o leeberal economic policies that resultit in fest economic growthe. The kintra achieved conseederable prosperity atween the years o 1995 an 2007, that becam kent as the Celtic Teeger period. This wis hautit bi an unprecedentit financial creesis that begoud in 2008, in conjunction wi the concurrent global economic crash. Houiver, as the Erse economy wis the festest growin in the EU in 2015, Ireland is again quickly ascendin league cairts comparin walth an prosperity internaitionally. For ensaumple, in 2015, Ireland wis rankit as the jynt saxt (wi Germany) maist developit kintra in the warld bi the Unitit Naitions Human Development Index. It an aw performs weel in several naitional performance metrics, includin freedom o the press, economic freedom an ceevil leeberties. Ireland is a member o the European Union an is a foondin member o the Cooncil o Europe an the OECD. The Erse govrenment haes follaed a policy o militar neutrality throu non-alignment syne immediately prior tae Warld War II an the kintra is consequently nae a member o NATO, awtho it is a member o Pairtnership for Peace.

## History
* Leinster House

## Notes

## References
Charles Kennedy

The Richt Honourable **Charles Peter Kennedy** CP (25 November 1959 &ndash; 1 Juin 2015) wis a Scots politeecian. He wis the leader o the Leeberal Democrats frae 1999 tae 2006. He demittit frae office aifter admittin he haed been battlin agin a drink problem, efter which Menzies Campbell wis electit leader. He wis the Commissioner for the Wastmeinster seat o Ross, Skye an Lochaber frae 1983 tae 2015, shortly afore his daith, when he wis succeedit bi Ian Blackford o the Scots Naitional Pairty.
Trowe

A **trowe** is a meethical craitur fae the Orkneys an ither airts. Its sib tae the Scandinavie *troll*. Trowes is thocht tae be be wee, scunnersome beasties that bides in tummocks an krivocks. Sea trowes bides aneath the watter an is gey an slouth. They are thocht tae be nocturnal, an e'en whan they come oot at nicht, they are inveesible tae the feck o fowk.

## Fremmit airtins
* What is a Trowe @ The Orkneyjar
Estonie

**Estonie**, whiles **Eastland**, is a wee kintra in the north o Europe. It is conseidert tae be ane o the three 'Baltic States', alang wi Latvie an Lithuanie, acause o its poseetion on the Baltic Sea. It haes mairches wi baith Latvie an Roushie. Tallinn, the caipital ceety o Estonie, an Tartu ur the lairgest ceeties in the kintra.

## References
Aiple

The **aiple tree** (*Malus pumila*, commonly an erroneously cried *Malus domestica*) is a deciduous tree in the rose faimily best kent for its sweet, pomaceous fruit, the **aiple**. It is cultivatit warldwide as a fruit tree, an is the maist widely growed species in the genus *[[Malus]]. *The tree originatit in Central Asie, whaur its wild auncestor, *[[Malus sieversii]]*, is still foond the day. Aiples hae been growed for thoosands o years in Asie an Europe, an war brocht tae North Americae bi European colonists. Aiples hae releegious an meethological signeeficance in mony culturs, includin Norse, Greek an European Christian tradeetions.

Aiple trees are lairge if growed frae seed. Generally aiple cultivars are propagatit bi graftin ontae ruitstocks, which control the size o the resultin tree. Thare are mair nor 7,500 kent cultivars o aiples, resultin in a range o desired chairactereestics. Different cultivars are bred for various tastes an uises, includin cuikin, eatin raw an cider production. Trees an fruit are prone tae a nummer o fungal, bacterial an pest problems, which can be controlled bi a nummer o organic an non-organic means. In 2010, the fruit's genome wis sequenced as pairt o resairch on disease control an selective breedin in aiple production.

Warldwide production o aiples in 2014 wis 84.6 million tonnes, wi Cheenae accoontin for 48% o the tot.

## References
Zoroastrianism

**Zoroastrianism** is a releegion fae Iran, forbye mony follaers bide in Indie (whaur they're kent as Parsis) an ither pairts o the warld. The releegion's based on the teachins o the prophet Zarathushtra (kent as Zoroaster an Zartosht an aa), an haes atween 100,000 an 200,000 follaers. Zoroastrianism is a monotheistic releegion, an micht hae had an influence on aucient Judaism, whan the Jews wir held captive in Babylon.

Zoroastrians believe that Ahura Mazda creatit aahin, forbye it can be seen or no. The Zoroastrian holy beuk is the Avesta. The auldest pairt, the Gathas (meanin "sangs" or "hymns"), wis scrievit bi Zoroaster himsel an talks aboot devotion tae nae god bit Ahura Mazda.

## References
Eda-Ines Etti

**Eda-Ines Etti**, born 26 Mey 1981, is a Estonie sangster frae Haapsalu.  She representit her hame kintra at the Euroveesion Sang Contest 2000 wi the sang *Once in a Lifetime*, an feenished in fowert poseetion.  In 2006, she is again enterin Eurolaul, the Estonian naitional walin for Euroveesion, wi the sang *Iseendale* ('For Masel'), that she haes written hersel.  It is the ae sang in the walin that is in Estonie, wi aa the ithers in Inglis.

## Fremmit airtins
*Unoffeecial Eda-Ines Etti wabsteid (in Inglis)
Menzies Campbell

**Sir Walter Menzies Campbell** or **Menȝies** (IPA /ˈmɪŋɪs/), kent as *Ming Campbell*, born 22 Mey 1941 in Glesga, is a Scots politeecian, an a member o the Unitit Kinrick pairlament at Wastmeinster, representin the Leiberal Democrat pairty.  He represents the North-east Fife consteetuency in the Hoose o Commons.  He wis the chief o his pairty forbye efter Charles Kennedy demittit fae office.
Eurovision Sang Contest 2005

The **Eurovision Sang Contest 2005** wis the 50t edeetion o the lang-rinnin televeesion competeetion. For a seicont time the competeetion wis spleet intae twa pairts, and wis hauden in Kyiv on 19 Mey an 21 Mey. The tap sang wis Greece's *My Number One* bi Elena Paparizou.
Neiokõsõ

**Neiokõsõ** wis a group conseestin o five lassies that representit Estonie at the Eurovision Sang Contest 2004, wi the sang *Tii*. It wis the first Estonien entry syne 1998 that wisna sang in Inglis, an wis insteid in the Võro leid. Wi the competeetion nou spleet intae twa pairts, the group didna git intae the feenal.

## Fremmit airtins
* Offeecial wabsteid  - *in Inglis, wi soond an video*
Eurovision Sang Contest 2004

The **Eurovision Sang Contest 2004** wis the 49t edeetion o the lang-rinnin televeesion competeetion. It wis the first tae be spleet intae twa pairts, an wis hauden in Istanbul on 12 Mey an 15 Mey. The tap sang wis Ukraine's *Wild Dances* bi Ruslana.

## See forbye

Neiokõsõ - Estonian entry
Sahlene

**Anna Sahlin**, maist aften kent as **Sahlene** or **Anna Sahlene**, is a Swadish singer fae Söderhamn.  As a backin singer for Charlotte Nilsson, she won the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 for her hame kintra wi the sang *Take Me to Your Heaven*.  In 2002, she gaed back til the Eurovision, but nou representin Estonia, efter takkin ower the sang *Runaway* fae Eda-Ines Etti in the naitional walin at the last meenit.  She teuk Estonia to thrid poseetion in the competeetion.  In 2006, she is enterin the sang *This Woman* intae the Melodifestivalen, the Swadish naitional walin for Eurovision.

## Fremmit airtins

*Offeecial wabsteid (in Inglis)
2006

**2006** is a common year stairtin on Sunday o the Gregorian calendar. It is the Cheenese year o the Dug, an haes been declared the 'Rembrandt Year', the 'Mozart Year', an the 'Asbergers Year'.

## See awso

*:Category:2006 daiths
*:Category:2006 albums
*:Category:Muisical groups established in 2006
Economics

**Economics** is "a social science concerned chiefly wi description an analysis o the production, distribution, an consumption o guids an services".

Economics focuses on the behaviour an interactions  o economic augents an hou economies wirk. Microeconomics analyzes basic elements in the economy, includin individual augents an mercats, thair interactions, an the ootcomes o interactions. Individual augents mey include, for ensaumple, hoosehauds, firms, buyers, an sellers. Macroeconomics analyzes the entire economy (meanin aggregatit production, consumption, savins, an investment) an issues affectin it, includin unemployment o resoorces (labour, caipital, an laund), inflation, economic growthe, an the public policies that address thir issues (monetary, fiscal, an ither policies).

Ither braid distinctions athin economics include thae atween positive economics, descrivin "what is", an normative economics, advocatin "whit shoud be"; atween economic theory an applee'd economics; atween raitional an behavioural economics; an atween mainstream economics an heterodox economics.

## References
Transport

Thare are mony furms o **transport** reengin frae traivelin on the grund tae ower watter or throu the air. Transport is a term remittin tae the muivement o, mainly, fowk an guids. Housomeiver, it remitts tae the muivement o information an aw, for ensaumple, the wab. The term comes frae the Laitin *trans* (athort) an *portare* (tae cairy).

## Transport weys

*Bicycle
*Bus
*Automobile
*Tram
*Train
*Walkin

## Transport o fowk
* Motorwey
** M4 motorwey
** M32 motorway
** M74
* Traffec sign
* Speed leemit
* Airbus
* Rolls-Royce
* BMW
* Plettiestanes

## References
Wellington (ceety)

**Wellington** (, ; , ) is the caipital o New Zealand. It is situate at the sooth o the North Island. The population is 393,600 (2014 estimat).
No pruiven

**No Pruiven** (*Not proven* in Inglis) is a verdict that can be gien bi a coort in Scotland. Unner Scots law, juries decidin creeminal trials haes three verdicts that thay can retour; Guilty, No guilty an No Pruiven.

The No Pruiven verdict states that the coort hauds the procurator didna pit forrit eneuch evidents o pruif, raither nor that the defender wisna connectit ava wi the crime; the coort is statin that thare's eneuch conseederable dout anent the wytit defender's innocence.

The affcome o this aesome verdict is the same as ane o No Guilty, in that the defender is lowsed athoot punishment or creeminal record. It fends protection frae dooble jeopardy an aa. The effect on public opeinion can be gey different, houaniver, as it suggests that the defender is thocht tae be guilty but wis juist lowsed acause the procurator haedna gaithered eneuch evidents.

An example o this can be fund in 19t century Glesca.  Socialite Madeline Smith is braidly seen as haein been fund guilty o murther. The case wis *no pruiven*, but Smith is aye popularly thocht o as a convict murtheress.

In the een o the law, a No Pruiven verdict is the same as a No Guilty verdict. Houaniver, a No Pruiven verdict, o coorse, can tache the repute of the defender afore the coort.

Senator Arlen Specter votit *No Pruiven* in the impeachment o Bill Clinton, citin Scots law. This wis byordinar acause *No Pruiven* isna a verdict that's tae haund unner Unitit States creeminal or ceevil law. Specter later wrat, "History winna say the preses wisna guilty, altho he wis enteitelt tae acqueetal acause the chairges wisna pruiven at a Senate trial, but historians will sling a deifie tae William Jefferson Clinton's brazen conceit that it wis aa Republican politeicians an a richt-wing conspeeracy."

No Pruiven is aften cryed the *Scots* (or *Scottish*, or *Scotch*) *Verdict*.
Hogmanay

**Hogmanay** is a Scottish haliday that faws on 31 December, the hindermaist day o the year. The nicht o Hogmanay stairts the lang celebration o the new year o the Gregorian calender, wi twa baunk halidays follaein, for ordinar on 1 an 2 Januar.

The oreegins o Hogmanay ar unclear but it micht derive frae Gaelic an Norse observances. Customs vary athort Scotland, an fur usual include gift exchangin an peyin visits tae friends an faimily, wi speicial attention bein gien tae the first-fitter, the first body throu the door in the New Year.

## Etymology
The oreegin o the wird is obscure. The aerliest proponed etymology wis in 1693 in the *Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence* that the wird is a corruption o the Greek  (), or "haly month". The three main modren theories pit it forrit as bein aither a French, Gaelic or Norse ruit.

The wird is first recordit in a Latin entry in 1443 in the Wast Ridin o Yorkshire as . The first kythin in Inglis came in 1604 in the records o Elgin, as *hagmonay*. Forder 17t-yearhunner spellins include *Hagmena* (1677), *Hogmynae night* (1681), an *Hagmane* (1693) in an entry o the *Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence*.

Awtho *Hogmanay* is the dominant spellin an pronoonciation, mony variations o the name hae been recordit, includin:

* Hoghmanay
* Hagman(a)e
* Hagmonay
* Hagmonick
* Hanginay (Roxburghshire)
* Hangmanay
* Hogernoany (Shetland)
* Hogminay/Hogmenay/Hogmynae
* Hoguemennay
* Huggeranohni (Shetland)
* Hu(i)gmanay

wi the first syllable various being , , ,  or .

### French etymology
It micht hae come intae Middle Scots frae French. The maist common citit ensaumple is that it comes frae the northren French byleidal wird , or variants sic as ,  an , thon wirds comin frae the 16t yearhunner Middle French  meanin aither a gift gien at New Year, a bairn's cry for sic a gift, or New Year's Eve itsel.

## 'Auld Lang Syne'
The Hogmanay prattick o singin 'Auld Lang Syne' haes become common in mony kintras. 'Auld Lang Syne' is a tradeetional poem reinterpretit by Robert Burns, that wis syne pitten tae muisic. It is nou common for this tae be sung in a circle o cleekit airms that's crosst ower ane anither as the knock chaps midnicht for Ne'er's Day, awtho in Scotland the tradeetional practice is tae cross airms anerly for the last verse.

## References
Shirley Clamp

**Shirley Natasja Clamp**, born 17 Februar 1973, is a Swadish sangster fae Borås. She haes ettlet monie times tae represent her hame kintra at the Eurovision Sang Contest bi enterin sangs intae the Melodifestivalen, the naitional walin for Eurovision, but her heichest poseetion up til nou wis seicont in 2004. Houaniver, she wis a backin singer for Greece's entry at the Eurovision Sang Contest 2001, *Die for You* bi Antique, feenishin in thrid poseetion.

## Faimily
The name Shirley she got frae her faither Colin who is Breetish an wantit tae give her a name that coud no mak Swadish. Her mither is Anita an her aulder sister is Tania. Shirley Clamp is cohabitin wit Daniel Ottosson an the couple lives in a hoose in Stockholm. On 15 Julie 2008 the couple's dochter Vilja Ottosson Clamp wis born.

## References

## Fremmit airtins

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