Scottish Class

A short post this evening...we had a rather long shopping day and a lovely meal.  Purchases include scarves, sweaters, clan items - typical Scot wares (sadly, no kilt for Joe, even though I'm sure he has the legs for it).  We also went to the Scottish National Museum today.  What a fabulous collection.  And very well displayed.

Tons of stuff on the kingdoms of Scotland, their history, wars, industry and the empire it is today, but the lower level is dedicated to early peoples...vikings, Romans, Normans, etc.  That level is full of sandstone artifacts, like this one, which I believe was the inspiration for "Get in my belly!"

Anyway, no new words for the day, but certainly some specific pronunciations:

Future: few-CHAH
Nature: nay-CHAH
Civilization: civil-lie-ZAY-shun
Frequent: freh-QUENT
Controversy: con-TRE-vassy
Actually: ACK-shah-ly

Tomorrow is a seat-of-our-pants day...no real agenda, maybe Scottish Parliament, Holyrood Palace, another pub or two.  Tomorrow night, Joe's signed up for a whisky tasting.  (In Scotland, they don't call it scotch - like when you're in China, it's not Chinese food, it's just food.)