Word: bannockburn
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...Home-rule battle cry springing from Burns's poem on the defeat of the English at Bannockburn...
Scrymgeour is pronoonced Skrimjer as it was when th' Heilanders defeated th' Sassan-ach at Bannockburn. aye an' at Prestonpans ferbye (an' if ye dare mention Flodden Field or Culloden, I'll slit yer throats wi' ma rusty Claymore an' feed yer misbegotten flesh tae th' Eagles...
...Bannockburn's fight and made thirteen years' truce...