`, 11 April 2008 (UTC)  :::I don't see that your about.com source is very much better than amateur lexicography in terms of quality. Is the writer an expert? Obviously not given his publications. Do the phrases ``Scotland is a nation`` and ``Scotland is a country`` appear in numbers on Google books or Google scholar? Yes for both. If your problem is with the country or nation articles, you are in the wrong place. If you want to exclude the words nation and country from this article, you'll need to do much better in terms of evidence.    20:51`