Editing Ell (section)

===Scots===
The '''Scottish ell''' ({{Langx|gd|slat Albannach}}) is approximately {{convert|37|in|m}}. The Scottish ell was standardised in 1661, with the exemplar to be kept in the custody of Edinburgh.<ref>''Concise Scots Dictionary'', chief editor Mairi Robinson, Aberdeen University Press, 1987, p 817</ref> It comes from [[Middle English]] {{lang|enm|elle}}.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dsl.ac.uk/getent4.php?plen=2873&startset=14827060&query=Ell&fhit=ell&dregion=form&dtext=dost#fhit |title=Dictionary of the Scots Language |access-date=2011-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321185041/http://www.dsl.ac.uk/getent4.php?plen=2873&startset=14827060&query=Ell&fhit=ell&dregion=form&dtext=dost#fhit |archive-date=2012-03-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

It was used in the popular expression {{lang|sco|Gie 'im an inch, an he'll tak an ell}} (equivalent to "Give him an inch and he'll take a mile" or "... he'll take a [[yard]]").

[[The Ell House|The Ell Shop]] (1757) in [[Dunkeld]], [[Perth and Kinross]] ([[National Trust for Scotland]]), is so called from the 18th-century iron ell-stick attached to one corner, once used to measure cloth and other commodities in the adjacent market-place. The shaft of the 17th-century Kincardine [[mercat cross]] stands in the square of [[Fettercairn]], and is notched to show the measurements of an ell.

Scottish measures were made obsolete, and English measurements made standard in Scotland, by an Act of Parliament, the [[Weights and Measures Act 1824]].

[[File:About the Dunkeld ell - geograph.org.uk - 1505823.jpg|thumb|centre|The [[Dunkeld]] ell explained on an information board outside [[The Ell House|The Ell Shop]]]]
[[File:The "Ell" on the side of the National Trust for Scotland shop. - geograph.org.uk - 1138039.jpg|thumb|centre|The [[The Ell House|Ell Shop]] iron ell attached to the wall]]