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 prepositions differently. The compound preposition "off of" is often used ("Take that off of the table"). Scots commonly say "I was waiting on you" (meaning "waiting for you"), which means something quite different in Standard English. In colloquial speech "shall" and "ought" are scarce, "must" is marginal for obligation and "may" is rare. Here are other syntactical structures: Note that in Scottish English, the first person declarative "I amn't invited" and interrogative "Amn't I invited?" are both possible. Scottish English Scottish English includes the varieties of English spoken in Scotland. The main, formal variety is called Scottish Standard English or