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Originally Posted by Combwork
Looks like you're right; the following is from Wikipedia.
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Sassenach is a word used chiefly by the Scots to designate an Englishman
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I think the Highlanders may well have used it as an insult to the Lowland Scots who sided with the English since by doing so they would have been "nae better than a Sassenach".
John