Inch (Scots)

Inch (Scots)

:"This article is about a unit of measurement. The word "inch" is also used in Scotland as an anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic "Innis", meaning an island, or piece of dry land in a swamp, e.g. Insch, Inchkeith, Inchkenneth.

A Scottish inch (Scottish Gaelic: "òirleach") was a Scottish measurement of length.

Equivalent to -
* Scottish measures
** 1/12 ft
* Metric system
** 2.554 cm
* Imperial system
** 1.0016 inches [http://www.dsl.ac.uk/getent4.php?plen=333&startset=1811889&query=INCH&fhit=inch&dregion=form&dtext=snds#fhit]

It was used in the popular expression -:"Gie 'im an inch, an he'll tak an ell":(equivalent to "Give him an inch, and he'll take a mile")

A Scottish square inch was equivalent to 1.0256 imperial square inches and 6.4516 square centimetres.

ee also

* ell (Scots)
* Mile (Scots)
* Fall (Scots)

References

* "Collins Encyclopedia of Scotland"
* "Weights and Measures", by D. Richard Torrance, SAFHS, Edinburgh, 1996, ISBN 1-874722-09-9 (NB book focusses on Scottish weights and measures exclusively)
*
* "Scottish National Dictionary" and "Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue"


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