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Anglo-Scot, Anglo-Scotch, Anglo-Scottish or more rarely Scoto-English or Scots English are terms applied to people and things that are identified with both England
England

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 and Scotland
Scotland

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.

Most commonly, it is used to refer to people born in, brought-up in, or long-term resident in England who have significant Scottish ancestry, or born and brought up in Scotland with English ancestry
English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
.

The term Anglo-Scot is most often be used to refer to people of dual English and Scottish heritage., or in a more pejorative sense, for a Scot who is perceived to be excessively anglicised.

Unlike other similar terms (e.g.






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Anglo-Scot, Anglo-Scotch, Anglo-Scottish or more rarely Scoto-English or Scots English are terms applied to people and things that are identified with both England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 and Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
.

Most commonly, it is used to refer to people born in, brought-up in, or long-term resident in England who have significant Scottish ancestry, or born and brought up in Scotland with English ancestry
English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
.

The term Anglo-Scot is most often be used to refer to people of dual English and Scottish heritage., or in a more pejorative sense, for a Scot who is perceived to be excessively anglicised.

Unlike other similar terms (e.g. Anglo-American) Anglo-Scot does not imply dual nationality, as English and Scottish people share British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 citizenship status, hence the majority of people identified as Anglo-Scots tend to be UK citizens.

Both the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair
Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair is a British politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007....
, and current Leader of the Opposition, David Cameron
David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron is the current leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition in the United Kingdom. He has occupied both positions since December of 2005....
, could be termed Anglo-Scots, but for different reasons. Tony Blair was born and educated in Scotland to a Scottish family but has spent most of his life in England. David Cameron was born and educated in England but has Scottish ancestry.

See also

  • Anglo
    Anglo

    The term Anglo is used as a prefix to indicate a relation to the Angles, England or the English people, as in the terms Anglo-Saxon, English American, Anglo-Celtic, and Anglo-Indian....
  • Anglo-Celtic
    Anglo-Celtic

    Anglo-Celtic is a macro-cultural term used to collectively describe the cultures native to Great Britain and Ireland and the significant diasporas located in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States....
  • Anglo-Irish
    Anglo-Irish

    "Anglo-Irish" was a term used historically to describe a privileged social class in Ireland, whose members were the descendants and successors of the Protestant Ascendancy, mostly belonging to the Anglicanism Church of Ireland, which was the established church of Ireland until 1871, or to a lesser extent one of the English Dissenters churches...
  • Anglo-Scottish border
  • Norse-Gaels
    Norse-Gaels

    The Norse-Gaels were a people who dominated much of the Irish Sea region and western Scotland for a large part of the Middle Ages, who were of Gaelic origin with some Scandinavia admixture, and and as a whole exhibited a great deal of Gaels and Norsemen cultural syncretism....
  • Old English
    Old English (Ireland)

    The Old English were the descendants of the settlers who came to Ireland from Wales, Normandy and England after the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169-71....
  • Scotch
    Scotch

    Scotch is an obsolescent adjective meaning "of Scotland". The modern usage in Scotland is Scottish or Scots, where the word "Scotch" is only applied to specific products, usually food or drink, such as scotch whisky, scotch pie, scotch broth or scotch eggs, and "Scotch" if applied to people is widely considered mildly pejorative....
  • Scoto-Norman
    Scoto-Norman

    The term Scoto-Norman is used to described people, families, institutions and archaeological artifacts that are partly Scottish and partly Norman ....
  • Scots-Irish American
    Scots-Irish American

    Scotch-Irish or Scots-Irish refers to inhabitants of the United States and, by some, of Canada who are of Ulster Scots people descent. The term may be qualified with American as in "Scotch-Irish American" or "American of Scots-Irish ancestry"....
  • Ulster-Scots
    Ulster-Scots

    Ulster-Scots are an ethnic group in Ireland, descended from mainly Scottish Lowlands Scottish people who settled in the province of Ulster in the north of Ireland....