2016–17 in Scottish football 2016–17 in Scottish football The 2016–17 season was the 120th season of competitive football in Scotland. The domestic season began on 16 July 2016, with the first round of the 2016–17 Scottish League Cup. The 2016–17 Scottish Professional Football League season commenced on 6 August. Celtic, Aberdeen, Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian qualified for European competition. Jane Ross and Caroline Weir were both nominated for the (English) PFA Women's Players' Player of the Year award. The Scotland women's national football team qualified for a major tournament for the first time. A loss by Finland against Portugal confirmed that Scotland would
Scottish English and overt Scotticisms, usually used for stylistic effect, with those using them aware of their Scottish nature. Scottish English has inherited a number of lexical items from Scots, which are less common in other forms of standard English. General items are "wee", the Scots word for small (also common in New Zealand English, probably under Scottish influence); "bairn" for child (from Common Germanic, cf modern Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Faroese "barn", West Frisian "bern" and also used in Northern English dialects); "bonnie" for pretty, attractive, (or good looking, handsome, as in the case of Bonnie Prince Charlie); "braw" for fine;