GAMES


Answers to the games will appear in the next issue

CRYPTOGRAM


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SOLUTION TO LAST MONTH'S CRYPTOGRAM

I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house. The sun began to shine upon the summit of the hills as I went down the road; and by the time I had come as far as the manse, the blackbirds were whistling in the garden lilacs, and the mist that hung around the valley in the time of the dawn was beginning to arise and die away.

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson





 

QUIZ


Music and Scotland


1. What piece of music by Felix Mendelsohn is popularly known by the name of a location on Staffa?

2. What opera by Donizetti has a libretto losely based on a novel by Sir Walter Scott?

3. Which composer wrote a symphony known as the Scottish Symphony?

4. What kind of music emerged in Scotland and Northern Island as a result of musical instruments being banned?

5. What is the word for a kind of song traditionally sung by women softening newly woven cloth to soften it?





ANSWERS TO LAST MONTH'S QUIZ

In which words does the word "Scotch" or "Scot" refer to something about Scotland? If it doesn't what is the origin of the form?


Butterscotch
Yes_____ No_X_____
Meaning
From a form "scocchen" in Middle English meaning "to scratch" or cut (originally from Vulgate Latin coca meaning a "notch". It refers to the marking on the hard surface of the confection




Scot Free
Yes_____ No_X_____
Meaning:
Sceot is an old English word for a tax. A municipal tax was "scot and lot". If you managed to avoid paying it you got off scot-free, inhence, to get away without having to pay a forfeit.


Hopscotch

Yes_____ No_X_____
Meaning
The "scotch" here refers to the same one in "butterscotch" but here the reference is to the marks cut in the dirt to mark the boxes in which one "hopped"


Scotch Tape

Yes__X_____ No_____
Meaning
A rather derogatory term implying cheapness. Someone complained there wasn't enough glue on the tape and they should , "take this tape back to your stingy Scotch bosses and tell them to put more adhesive on it" Yuck- Icky.


Scotch Verdict

Yes_X_____ No_____
Meaning
Out of Scotland the term refers to Scottish criminal codes which allow three findings buy juries - Guilty, Not Guilty and Not Proven. The difference between the two acquittals (not guilty and not proven) is that not proven indicates the jury is not convinced of the accused person's innocence, but feels the case hasn't quite been made to convict. It is sometimes called "The not guilty, but don't do it again" decision!







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