Talk:Sassenach

How do you pronounce Sassenach?
Can someone please inform me how to pronounce Sassenach please? (I'm not a native English-speaker) Thank you ! 89.180.22.209 (talk) 06:38, 19 October 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.182.184.113 (talk) 13:31, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

vfd closed - result was "keep"
This article was nominated for deletion. The result was keep. For details, please see Votes for deletion/Sassenach. -- BD2412 talk 22:36, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

Irish use
I've reverted the changes which saw it stated that the word was used by "Irish and Scots" and by "Irish and Scottish English users" which, as well as reversing the order of precedence given that the latter people in those phrases a) are the ones who most commonly use it and b) that that it is from Scottish Gaelic the word arrived in English. Also (indeed must importantly) the fact that these edits contradicted the second section of the article dealing with cognates in the Irish and Welsh languages which states that neither equivalent word is used by English speakers in those countries. An Siarach

There ought to be some reference to it though; Its certainly less frequent then in Scotland but i've heard the word used plenty of times in an english speaking context in Ireland where it carries a slightly more derogatory conotation than it would in Scotland. Furthermore, in Irelnad, it refers to the english specificaly rather than to lowland scots or even northern irish orangemen. The implication of calling an englishman a Sasannach is that the given subject is not only english by birth but also either particularly ignorant or intolerant of the native culture. Fergus mac Róich 10:30, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I would have voted Keep.
I was shocked to see the NFD tag at the top of this page. The concept of "Sassenach" and the evolution of the concept is incredibly important to Scottish Culture and the cultural history of the British isles. This page needs to be expanded, not merged. If merged, I will endeavor to provide enough of the expansion myself to prove that it warrants its own page. Note that Wiki-Project Scotland considers this a High-Importance topic. I would have voted Keep. Ollie Garkey (talk) 05:26, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Spoiler inherent in Uses
For the Outlander reference, can you remove the reference to Claire Beauchamp's husband? They are not husband and wife until the middle of the first book. I came to Wikipedia looking for Sassenach and, while I suspected that marriage was in the offing for the two characters, it would've been nice to actually read it in the book first.

Thanks

COflutist (talk) 00:27, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Breton
Perhaps of relevance, in Breton (language from Brittany, France), the word for "English" is "Saozon" (sing. "saoz"). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.115.42.228 (talk) 19:12, 15 October 2011 (UTC)