Scotsman
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Scotsman may mean:
- a man from Scotland, in common parlance (Scotswoman is the equivalent for a woman) - see also Scottish peopleScottish peopleThe Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...
. - No true ScotsmanNo true ScotsmanNo true Scotsman is an informal logical fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion. When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim, rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original universal claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to...
, a common logical fallacy. - The ScotsmanThe ScotsmanThe Scotsman is a British newspaper, published in Edinburgh.As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 38,423, down from about 100,000 in the 1980s....
, a national newspaper based in Edinburgh, Scotland. - The Scotsman HotelThe Scotsman HotelThe Scotsman Hotel Edinburgh opened in 2001 in the Victorian building which had housed The Scotsman newspaper for nearly a century. The hotel is located on North Bridge between the Royal Mile and Princes Street, thereby straddling Edinburgh’s Medieval Old Town and Georgian New Town.- Ownership...
in Edinburgh, Scotland (formally the offices of The Scotsman) - SCOTSMAN, a mnemonic used by salespeople to qualify opportunities (Solution, Competition, Originality, Timescales, Size, Money, Authority, Need)
- The Scotsman, the name of a character in the cartoon Samurai JackSamurai JackSamurai Jack is an American animated television series created by animator Genndy Tartakovsky that aired on both Cartoon Network and Toonami from 2001 to 2004. It is noted for its highly detailed, outline-free, masking-based animation, as well as for its cinematic style and pacing...
- "The Scotsman," a novelty song written by Mike Cross, featured on the Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary CollectionDr. Demento 20th Anniversary CollectionThis is a release by radio disc jockey Dr. Demento to celebrate 20 years since the beginning of his radio career.It covers many of the novelty and comedy songs from the 1950s such as Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor by Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group to the then recent release of Eat It...
album. - Studebaker ScotsmanStudebaker ScotsmanThe Scotsman was an automobile series produced by the Studebaker Packard Corporation of South Bend, Indiana, during model years 1957 and 1958, and a low-priced series of pickup trucks in 1958 and 1959...
, an American economy car from the 1950s