Inch (Scots)
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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 [1]
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")
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 square inch was equivalent to 1.0256 imperial square inches and 6.4516 square centimetres.
[edit] See also
[edit] 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)
- This article incorporates text from "Dwelly's [Scottish] Gaelic Dictionary" (1911)
- Scottish National Dictionary and Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
