But those plans were scotched with the offer from Prime.

"And we've already scotched that idea because of the safety factor."

Yet for all these restrictions, large developments have not been completely scotched.

My temptation was to head up to the second floor, but I scotched the impulse.

"Being a dean pretty much scotched my activism," she said.

Every hour a man hath said "That at least is scotched and dead."

At first he thought the man was watching him, but a short perusal scotched that idea.

And worries about disabled children slowing everyone else down have been scotched.

Cicero's stand went a long way toward scotching the rumor.

That is what scotched New Jersey's plan to start a similar program.

You nearly scotched the mutiny before it started, is how the story goes."

Just four years ago, the kill was scotched by 567,000 gallons of Exxon heating oil.

I could have scotched the business days ago!

"You've spoiled my trap that would have scotched them at the start.

And until Microsoft scotched the idea recently, there was even talk of making Windows free.

By the 24th or 25th miles, they should be scotched.

The remnants of belief have been scotched by his mordant university learning.

Astronomy, by showing that Heaven was mostly empty space, scotched this idea.

Their honeymoon plans, hazy before the disaster, were scotched in its wake.

Two summers in a row, his assignment to Saturn had been scotched at the last minute.

There are, however, some myths that have grown over the years that need to be scotched.

Deals have been scotched because of improvements and decor not to the buyer's taste.

All these plans were scotched by the auction.

He was scotched on the corner of his big desk, fingering a yellow pencil.

At the anarchic international level, war crimes prosecutions are more likely to be scotched in the name of peace.

He is best known for his studies of Scottish history.

I worked in Scottish schools for well over 30 years.

But not to anyone who has read even a little Scottish history.

He is sometimes said to be the son of a Scottish king.

He played 3 times for the Scottish national team in the 1986-7 season.

That's a question that the Scottish people are going to have to ask themselves.

Scottish Cup is in good health, but for how long?

He was let go just a month later having played only one game for the Scottish side.

All is not well among some of the top Scottish arts companies.

He was the first manager of the Scottish national team.

Is there any reason why Scottish schools can't start an hour later?

Next to be considered are two Scottish cases, very close to each other in time.

Let's find out what one hundred Scottish women think of parents today.

They are the first Scottish senior side to go out of business for 35 years.

The history of Scottish women in the late 19th-century and early 20th-century did not really develop as a field until the 1980s.

"He must have been thinking about his interview with the Scottish director."

But they haven't lost a bit of their Scottish pride.

Or Scottish, which is the quick way of saying it.

I believe he worked with you at that Scottish research station.

But if you do not keep the king's mind on the Scottish war, he will have too much time to consider religious problems.

He has made two appearances for the Scottish national team.

Most of the Scottish coast has a very low population.

He was named Scottish player of the year for 2009.

I'm sure the Scottish people really enjoyed watching us play.

The record for the Scottish adventure is 48 1/2 days.

So did the two hundred or so Scots cavalrymen who accompanied them.

French and Scots troops began to seriously besiege the town in July 1548.

Alexander Blackwell (ca. 1700 - 1747) was a Scots adventurer.

Robert Bryden (1865-1939) was a Scots artist and sculptor.

The Choir has a varued repertoire including classical, sacred and Scots songs.

More Scots language.

Then we approached Scottish Screen but as we were not a Scots production company they could only give us £5,000.

He was beheaded using an early Scots execution machine called the maiden at St. Andrews.

Earl on the other hand is an English or Scots translation, alien to the Gaelic tradition.

They were descendants of strategic marriages between high-status Creek women and the mostly Scots fur traders in the area.

The only thing that could get one down - as it eventually did his American television followers - was his high-pitched, breathless, Scots delivery.

My Dad was talking last night about how the distinctively Scots vocabulary he used to hear in Glasgow as a kid is becoming increasingly rare.

Source: Bâ'm Scots tourist attractions 'weather economic downturn'

In these repeated strips, some particularly Scots words were replaced (e.g., 'ahint' became 'behind') and the pre-decimal coinage was updated.

In Yorkshire, split stones called thackstone (Scots thack, English thatch) were employed as roofing.

It is one of the earliest representations of a Scottish subject to survive and was probably painted by a Scots artist using Flemish techniques.

His mother was a high-status Creek woman and his father a mostly Scots fur trader; such strategic alliances were common, as both cultures believed they benefited.

Well over 90% of those buried bear recognizably Scots names such as Anderson, McGregor, Campbell and Ross.

Liverpool and Everton are battling for Duncan Ferguson, Dundee United's rising star and a Scots international.

They organised a mainly Scots relief force which, under George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus and de Brézé, set out on 22 November.

Because of their origins and practice, Breton and Gallo can be compared to Scottish Gaelic and Scots language in Scotland.

In the early summer of 1423, at the Battle of Cravant, Buchan found himself in command of a mixed force of French and Scots soldiers.

Beginning in September 1828 she lived for some time in the household of William Eppes Cormack, a Scots emigrant, Newfoundland entrepreneur and philanthropist.

In Scottish English, oats may be referred to as corn.

It also retains this more general meaning in the Scottish English dialect.

Quite a lot of the words still remain in use but on the whole, Scottish English is increasingly spoken among the indigenous population.

Some dialects of Scottish English have this in "police".

It was this remodeling that eventually led to the formation of Scottish English.

Scottish English may be influenced to varying degrees by Scots.

The study of Scottish English by Brown et al.

Scottish English soon became the dominant language.

At the time, police speculated that the letter-writer might be familiar with Scottish English.

Generally there is a shift to Scottish English in formal situations or with individuals of a higher social status.

Most people know some dialect words: for example,bairn for child in Scottish English.

Scottish English is the form of the English language spoken in Scotland.

It was largely replaced by Doric and latterly Scottish English.

"Laddie", the word for boy in Scottish English

It is more strongly influenced by Gaelic than other forms of Scottish English.

Whisky (Scottish English; otherwise whiskey) is an alcoholic beverage.

(though this is normal in Standard Scottish English)

Scottish English

Dovecote, also called doocot in Scottish English, a building for pigeons or doves

There are numerous words common to Scots, Scottish English and English.

The form 'loch' is also used in Irish English and Scottish English.

The formation of these regional/socio-economic dialects is the same form of language contact that has given rise to Scottish English.

The word amnae for "am not" exists in Scots, and has been borrowed into Scottish English by many speakers.

The dialect of English spoken in Scotland is referred to as Scottish English.

The word craig (Anglicised to crag) refers to a small, rocky hill in Scottish English.

Actually, Britain is an island, but does not include the Scottish Islands.

It grew out of the informal Scottish Islands Network, which had existed since 2001.

He served on the Committee on Scottish Sea Fisheries in 1917.

Follow our blog as we challenge a keen traveller to zip around the Scottish Islands in 80 monuments!

Cruising the Scottish Islands.

Xanthe Clay visits Scottish Sea Farms to find out.

January 23 - Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)

October 24 - James Mackintosh, Scottish publicist (d. 1832)

A Scottish Island (1998)

January 2 - Alexander Bain, Scottish inventor (b. 1811)

He was made Commander Scottish District in 1896, a post he held until 1901; he retired in 1906.

June 14 - Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (b. 1698)

Scottish Mountain Drawings:

The Corbetts and Other Scottish Hills.

Support will be given to all Department of Transport and Scottish Road Safety Campaign initiatives in this connection.

The Letter It's turnip season on the Scottish Island - and Irene gets an offer she can't refuse.

Erich Schaedler, Scottish footballer (b. 1949)

The Forth River, named after the Scottish River Forth (see above.)

A few years later Arthur James Towers was a teacher at the Saint Andrew Scottish School.

There have since been three more expeditions, to the Andes, the Arctic, and the Scottish Islands - to which a further expedition is scheduled for 2013.

Robert Munro - Ancient Scottish Lake Dwellings or Crannogs.

The Scottish River Purification Boards' Association suggested there should be a main board and area or regional boards in the agency.

Don Lennox is a Guinness World Record holding Scottish Ocean Rower.

She became the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief Scottish Coast on 22 February 1922, but was sold for scrap in December 1922.

The Sudreys became "Sodor", which was fossilised in the name of the Diocese, long after it ceased to have any authority over the Scottish Islands.

There were a lot of older Scots on his right side.

The small party of Scots with him were interested in something else.

Besides, these Scots have some beautiful women of their own.

It cost £63 Scots per month, with £60 for its crew of 20.

The modern game was spread by Scots to the rest of the world.

The Scots returned home years ago, but their legacy lives on.

Scots have always liked to see themselves in his poems.

Scots have long wanted to run their own affairs, but don't want independence.

There's been recent criticism that too many Scots are in the present team.

How do Scots get their kids to sleep when it's not dark till 11pm?

Scots seem far more relaxed about independence than ever before.

Around 80,000 Scots held foreign investment assets in the early 20th century.

The constant fear is that they might be identified as Scots.

Scots began to commission the printing of books in other countries.

If most Scots really are set against the change then could have two time zones, despite pain that would be.

Top of the must-see list for me are three great Scots.

After the period of indenture, these Scots became free men.

Scots are thus a minority at almost all the congregations.

And even if they did, not even you could stop those Scots.

Scots was not considered "a suitable medium of education or culture".

There were numerous differences between 6170 and the other rebuilt Scots.

With more Scots playing at a higher level down south, our international future might also be brighter than once feared.

Scots had a notable influence in warfare during this period.

Scots' Church has participated in a number of ecumenical activities.

This allowed the 500-600 Scots to repulse an army of 3000.

She looked at me and took more of the scotch.

But I held her a moment, to scotch the thing once and for all.

Now there was a scotch in his running with her.

He was working on his third scotch of the evening.

The glass of scotch was now in his right hand.

The scotch was working its way to his head now, and he got up again to walk it off.

He held out his glass for another shot of scotch.

She's up to almost a fifth of scotch a day.

Both men had large glasses of scotch in their hands.

And a bottle of scotch isn't going to get them out.

Later on, they do the same with a bottle of scotch.

He said anything and she poured them each a scotch.

I have some scotch in my room, if you need help sleeping.

There was very little room in the scotch cart and they were both big men.

Now break out some of that good scotch you keep around for business deals.

For days thereafter she tried to get him to talk, but he turned to scotch instead.

"I think one glass of scotch is quite enough for me," he said.

Since the end of January, she's just been drinking the scotch.

All them double scotches have made your hair fall out.

He held up his last bottle of 24-year old Ambassador scotch.

We found five bottles of scotch hidden in his room.

Soon we were sitting at my kitchen table drinking scotch.

He stood back and waved her in with the scotch glass.

Fixing myself a scotch and water I sat down to think about this.

I guess then we'll get out the scotch and have a party."

In Scottish English, oats may be referred to as corn.

It also retains this more general meaning in the Scottish English dialect.

Quite a lot of the words still remain in use but on the whole, Scottish English is increasingly spoken among the indigenous population.

Some dialects of Scottish English have this in "police".

It was this remodeling that eventually led to the formation of Scottish English.

Scottish English may be influenced to varying degrees by Scots.

The study of Scottish English by Brown et al.

Scottish English soon became the dominant language.

At the time, police speculated that the letter-writer might be familiar with Scottish English.

Generally there is a shift to Scottish English in formal situations or with individuals of a higher social status.

Most people know some dialect words: for example,bairn for child in Scottish English.

Scottish English is the form of the English language spoken in Scotland.

It was largely replaced by Doric and latterly Scottish English.

"Laddie", the word for boy in Scottish English

It is more strongly influenced by Gaelic than other forms of Scottish English.

Whisky (Scottish English; otherwise whiskey) is an alcoholic beverage.

(though this is normal in Standard Scottish English)

Scottish English

Dovecote, also called doocot in Scottish English, a building for pigeons or doves

There are numerous words common to Scots, Scottish English and English.

The form 'loch' is also used in Irish English and Scottish English.

The formation of these regional/socio-economic dialects is the same form of language contact that has given rise to Scottish English.

The word amnae for "am not" exists in Scots, and has been borrowed into Scottish English by many speakers.

The dialect of English spoken in Scotland is referred to as Scottish English.

The word craig (Anglicised to crag) refers to a small, rocky hill in Scottish English.

She looked at me and took more of the scotch.

But I held her a moment, to scotch the thing once and for all.

He turned from the living room window, a Scotch and water in his hand.

He was working on his third scotch of the evening.

The Scotch now and then shows itself like that in a man.

Now there was a scotch in his running with her.

The glass of scotch was now in his right hand.

"Why would you buy my father a case of Scotch?"

He held out his glass for another shot of scotch.

"Looks like you could use a little Scotch, at the very least."

The scotch was working its way to his head now, and he got up again to walk it off.

Lake may not have known too much about the real world but he knew a good Scotch.

Later on, they do the same with a bottle of scotch.

White is known for drinking Scotch as part of his act.

Traditional Scotch, there was nothing like it, as his father always used to say.

The four hours of sleep and all that Scotch showed.

She's up to almost a fifth of scotch a day.

Both men had large glasses of scotch in their hands.

He said anything and she poured them each a scotch.

Before dinner, the men will all talk too much and drink Scotch.

In the old days it might be a bottle of Scotch.

He'd have spent half an hour over a Scotch and soda.

He set the book down, finishing the last of the Scotch.

They each had a final glass of Scotch and watched the fire.

He took them with a splash of Scotch, then sat down.

Scotch Whisky is a core business for all of them.

There are over 2,500 brands of Scotch whisky around the world.

I supposed Scotch whisky must be a novelty to him.

These terms are most commonly used in reference to Scotch whisky.

This is particularly so in the case of Scotch Whisky.

He drank half a bottle of scotch whisky to put himself to sleep.

Is the world leader in sales of Scotch whisky.

Scotch Whisky provides 15,000 jobs, many in rural areas with few alternative opportunities.

In Scotch whisky, this grain is required to be barley.

Scotch whisky without an age statement may, by law, be as young as three years old.

A student from Peru asked if the same company made Scotch whisky.

Why do you have to pay so much for your bottle of Scotch Whisky?

Then she said, "I wish we did have some Scotch whisky here."

All Scotch whisky must be aged in oak barrels for at least three years.

The box carried various cargo from Scotch whisky to cat food.

It is also the name of a Scotch whisky distillery located there.

As a supporter of Scotch whisky, I want to focus on that.

Scotch Whisky, on the other hand, is an enormous contributor to the balance of payments.

These trends have had very important implications for Scotch Whisky.

On that same top shelf there were four ancient empty Scotch whisky bottles.

The name was revived in 1993, for an independent bottler of Scotch whisky.

But nothing ever changed that much; bottles of Scotch whisky were sent to the doctor on a regular basis.

Scotch whisky has not, and this regulation must not allow that to happen.

Their explanation was simply that Scotch whisky is a rich industry and therefore does not require any subsidy.

Each was given a bottle of Scotch whisky.