Scot vs Richard - What's the difference?
scot | richard |
A person born in or native to Scotland.
, a rare spelling variant of Scott.
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* ~1593 William Shakespeare: Richard III: Act V, Scene II :
* 1629 , , Meditations upon Creed'', ''The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862) , volume 3, page 212:
* 1985 , , Pride , ISBN 0394536363, page 97:
As a noun scot
is (uk|historical) a local tax, paid originally to the lord or ruler and later to a sheriff.As a proper noun richard is
cognate to richard.scot
English
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* * ----richard
English
Proper noun
(s)- What! do I fear myself? there's no one else by; / Richard' loves ' Richard ; that is, I am I.
- But we have known Williams and Richards , names not found in sacred story, but familiar to our country, prove as gracious saints as any Safe deliverance'', ''Fight the good fight of faith , or such like,
- I'd love to live in our castle. First I'd change my name from Dickie to Richard . That's my real name and it's a good king name. I don't like being called Dickie anyway, and I don't want to be Dick Junior either because everybody starts calling you Junior. What I'd like to be called is Rich but I don't know how to start people doing it.