Dieu et mon droit, otherwise, my God you're right, all three of you. Thanks for the tip, Bazza. I have made the change. Scotch was good enough for Doctor Johnson but it's true the North Britishers don't like it. I like annoying them, perhaps because I am myself demi-Scotch. But which half?
Jerome, your emendation is good too. I shall have to consider. I knew (why of course I did - three years at school!) that the word was disyllabic in Greek, but I thought the Elizabethans might have Englished it. But I thought wrong.
Perhaps Lucy has Scotch ancestors. I might change it.
Ann's is a real poem. Mine is a cheerful verse. But perhaps verse wins here.
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