Talk:Scottish cringe

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This seems to have started out purely as an ethnic insult about six months ago, and has failed to become anything else despite several attempts at improvement. AfD? Andrewa 00:58, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Before considering AfD, check out Google for context. It's generally used by Scottish commentators talking about their own culture: see [1], [2], [3], [4],[5], and so on. Tearlach 01:48, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

I did check Google of course, but perhaps not well enough.

I certainly am not saying that nobody uses the term! But to be encyclopedic it isn't enough for a term to be used; That just gets it into a lexicon, not into an encyclopedia. To get into an encyclopedia, the term needs to describe something about which we have some information.

The external link now added to the article (your first reference above) now gives the article some substance, as it's a citable authority. Thank you! I've added the actual citation. I'm inclined to think it can now grow, so AfD is off my agenda. Good stuff. Room for more improvement IMO. Andrewa 09:50, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

In view of the fact that it now looks like this article could grow, I've added a stub notice (there didn't seem much point before). Thanks again for your input. Andrewa 21:15, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

I was thinking that this does not exist in scotland, as i live here, and haven't heard it mentioned. I live in Glasgow, work in Edinburgh and drink in both and haven't heard it spoken. I think it is only used in context by politicians, coined by Jack McConnoll. 20:20 20th September 2005 (GMT) User:scope_creep

In agreement with the above, I am from, and live in Scotland and never heard the phrase until politicians and (bad) journalists started using it. Although the journalists prefer "Caledonian cringe" in an attempt to be poetic.