Rafie said:
brendude13 said:
Rafie said:
Okay I'm going to ask a question. This isn't to offend anyone here at all. I'm just very ignorant on the subject and I see that I have live Scottsman and Irishman on this site to enlighten me.
What's the difference between Scottland and Ireland? I've met people from both and they have the same accent, same last name, seems like the same mannerisms. Can someone tell me please? |
Countries have borders that separate them from neighbouring countries. Scotland is one country, Ireland is another country.
Hope I helped.
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LOL Okay I ran into that one. I'm serious though. Both countries seem so similar that it would be hard to distinguish a someone from Scotland against someone from Ireland.
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They have differences although they do have similarities in the accents and it's hard for those outside the UK to differentiate them, from what I understand long ago in history Scots and Irish were driven out of England by invading settlers after centuries of battling invaders. It's worth noting that England was a long running battle ground with different European regimes invading to take over, I know the Celtic culture came in from Europe and a number of those settlers landed in Ireland and Scotland.
