Given that the Rangers Sports was one of the longest running sports promotions in Scottish athletics history – it ran from 1881 into the 1960’s – and the importance of its place in athletics particularly after the second great war, it is maybe appropriate to note the origins in a separate...
In Macaulay's data (1991: 110) forty one out of ninety measure nouns are plural. Minute, day, week, shilling, inch and yard are always plural after numerals greater than 1. The percentage of inflected plurals for other nouns is pound - 89%, month - 86%, year - 68%, ton - 50%,...
When he joined Rangers as a youngster more than five years ago, the lucrativeand alluring Champions League knockout stage was a bridge too far for bothhalves of the Old Firm despite multi-million-pound signings. So it was with some contentment at Hampden yesterday that the amiable21-year-...
Where heartsome wi' thee.. I ha'e mony days been; For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more, We'll may be return to Lochaber no more. These tears that I shed, they are a' for my dear, And no for the dangers attending on weir, Tho' borne on rough seas to a far distant shore,...