1999–2000 Scottish First Division are shown below: 1999–2000 Scottish First Division The 1999-00 Scottish First Division was won by St Mirren, finishing as one of two promoted teams. As the Scottish Premier League was being expanded to twelve teams Dunfermline Athletic were to be joined by Falkirk in a three team playoff against Aberdeen with the top two placed teams entering the Scottish Premier League. However, this didn't occur as Falkirk's Brockville Stadium didn't meet the then SPL requirements for having a 10,000 all-seater stadium. Clydebank finished bottom and were relegated to the Scottish Second Division. The average attendances for Scottish First Division clubs
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;