Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 08-21-18 01:01 <=-

So perhaps we needn't pursue the question. Depends
on how bored we become with the elderly cat.

Who probably will be mostly not even in evidence, as he isn't keen on strangers.... ;)

We shall see. Critters often paradoxically trust
me, even if I'd just as soon eat them as pet them;
plus they are famous for coming out and bugging
those who are allergic to them, as I understand
some of us are, including me.

You have a point there... even our Spook took to you... ;) I'm just
going on past experience with Throggy, at multiple family get-togethers
at the house... ;) He will wander through, looking for opportunities,
but doesn't usually stick around much....

Scots-Irish is also proper in genealogical circles...

My original observation was that I have encountered
only one self-described Scotch-Irish. I've never heard
one calling him/herself Scots-Irish. But see below.

Probably would depend on the circles one was in... lots of terms show up primarily in the genealogical circles, and not so much in the general public... ;)

So in genealogical circles, you've said that
Scots-Irish is considered proper, but what's the
percentage who use that term vs. Scotch-Irish
referring to their own families?

Not sure of the percentage... they both are considered proper, from what
I've seen... and I've really not paid that close attention to which is
more or less popular...

Other groups had similar affectations, of course... :) I
think of the PA Dutch or Deutsch... who were of course, German....
another branch of my heritage... ;)

One wonders about the Dootzes ... there's no
substantial difference between the Dutch and the
Deutsch, especially in that era - it was all part
of the HRE and/or the Habsburgs, as I recall, with
the Duchy of Brabant and of Muenster sharing both
the Rhineland and the Netherlands. And the language
attributed as Penn Dutch is a "Low German" that the
northwest Germans and the Netherlanders (of the
18th century and possibly even today) would find
mutually comprehensible.

That may be... There was, however, distinction made between the two
groups, and people definitely wanting to be considered one instead of
the other... possibly both ways... I was almost afraid to break the news
to my maternal grandmother that families she'd proudly claimed as Dutch
had turned out to be clearly German... fortunately for me, she'd already reluctantly come to that conclusion, having observed some of the family
stones in nearby graveyards.... ;) (this being not PA, but NY)

And that the term is not used in my circle.

Makes sense when one thinks about it... :)

Turns out one of my less favorite professors
was Scotch-Canadian and referred to himself as
Scotch. He even wrote a book about his ancestors
and titled it by that monicker.

Did he also imbibe...?

He was a less favorite professor. I knew about the
bibulous habits of only my more favorite professors.
Piqued my curiosity, I looked that question up and
came up with little information but did find this
semi-relevancy -
Samuel Johnson, who loved to chaff James Boswell about his origins, regularly referred to the Scotch, which was the common term in the eighteenth century for people from Scotland. In our time, the term
has come to seem both old-fashioned and disparaging; it is mildly offensive to use it.
But the bony Lowland Scots who settled in Ulster and then crossed
the water to America, many of them winding up in Appalachia,
called themselves Scotch-Irish, and the term remains in use in
the United States. And not just here. When John Kenneth Galbraith
came to write about his people in Canada, the title of his book
was The Scotch.
(You can call us Scots-Irish if you like. This is America.)
- John McIntyre, I'm Scotch, so pour me one, Baltimore Sun 7/29/2011

Ah... so we still don't know if your professor did... but he may have, I suppose... ;)

My food dislikes have not much to do with their
health effects, and a bit of a mold allergy such
as most normal people have doesn't appear to have
anything to do with it.

OK... :)

Further, I have been known to eat things that are
supposed to be bad for me.

Supposed to, and actually are, are two different things.... ;)

ttyl neb

... Chocolate chip cookies: hazardous waist products!

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