My wife is Scottish, I'm English, our children were born in England. Try telling her her children aren't half Scottish, and you won't get far, Giok!

Christopher Murray Grieve, James Henry Miller. Both good Scots names, but not as euphonious or distinctive (or as arty farty either, perhaps) as the ones they chose to work under. Where is the masquerade? That word, to me at least, implies deception. A lot of artists choose different names to work under. (Did Richard Starkey masquerade, for one? Or Robert Sutherland for another?) Were MacDiarmid's literary achievement less than his son's (also Christopher Grieve) because the latter worked under his own name?