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The Slur of the Scots

Shakespeare uses it to mean kind of a saucy person. In King John Act II, scene one. The Duke of Austria describes Philip. So this is 1595 and it gets attributed or I mean, it becomes a kind of slur for Scots Irish. Because Shakespeare doesn't have a lot of other races to make fun of.

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