There are things you can express in Scots that you can't say in English.
有些事物可以用苏格兰英语表达，而无法用标准英语表达。
Unlike the English, the Scots retain a "not proven" verdict in their criminal courts, and the unappealing prospect in sight is of this being the effective outcome of the Lockerbie case.
与英国不同，苏格兰在刑事案件中保留了“证据不足”的判决，眼下令人不快的景象正是由洛克比案的此种审判结果所带来的。
Attempts to smite vice in Scotland sometimes prepare the way for similar measures elsewhere: the Scots banned smoking in public buildings, for example, a year before the English did.
因为，有时在苏格兰进行打击恶行的行动会促使其它地方采取相同的措施。比如，苏格兰禁止在公共建筑物内吸烟，一年后英国效仿了该禁令。
"The indigenous people of these islands,the English, the Scots the Irish and the Welsh" "The whites" "The color is irrelevant it's the people who have been here overwhelmingly for the last we are the aborigines here."
VOA : standard.2009.10.23
Alas, there are a couple of reasons sharply to distrust Mr Salmond's vision of the Scots and English shaking hands over the corpse of Great Britain.
An increase in tuition fees is thought to be behind the slump in applications from Scots students to English institutions.
One fashionable view is that Britain was never more than a contingent political construction a product of the specific historical circumstances of imperial conquest by the English of Wales and Ireland, and the bargain that the Scots did with the English in the Act of Union of 1707.