Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot
See my post about the CW soldiers. Same principle.

Sorry, I don't buy the "bigotry" reason as the only reason -- I'm sure a ploughman from Devon or Northumberland smelled just as bad as a lad from Forres or Ayr.

Cheers,

Todd
I agree, a English peasant would smell as bad as a Scottish one. Though I'm sure that the English only thought it worse that the smelly person was Scottish, and the other way around!