Sharman Macdonald at Aldeburgh with music by Deirdre Gribbin, and "Lu Lah, Lu Lah" (2010) commissioned for a young all-female cast and performed at the Cheltenham Ladies' College in Cheltenham. Macdonald is married to the actor Will Knightley. They have two children, Caleb and actress Keira Knightley. Sharman Macdonald Sharman Macdonald (born 8 February 1951) is a Scottish playwright, screenwriter, and actress. Macdonald was born in Glasgow, the daughter of Janet Rewat (née Williams) and Joseph Henry Hosgood MacDonald. She has Scottish and Welsh ancestry. Macdonald was educated at the University of Edinburgh, from which she graduated in 1972. She credits fellow
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