The 'Scots' can refer to various things through Scottish history. Originally what is now Scotland was occupied by the Picts, a Northern Celtic people, similar to the Brythonic Celts (Britons) in what...
Scots-highlanders are the present, or formerly, Gaelic speaking inhabitants.Scots-Irish are descendants of a colonization of northern Ireland that took place in the 1600s. Called "Ulster Scots"...