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  "description": "EU Bureaucrats classified the kilt as a women's skirt and then had to back down as a ferocious Scottish nation turned on them.",
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  "publishedAt": "2003-11-11T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "EU Bureaucrats classified the kilt as a women's skirt and then had to back down as a ferocious Scottish nation turned on them.\n\nAnd then they had to back down as a ferocious Scottish nation turned on them! \n\n\"The statistical agency Eurostat, which is collating information from 15 states to examine business trends, sent questionnaires to garment producers that did not allow kiltmakers to register the national dress as menswear. Manufacturers were told to fill in how many kilts they had sold in the space provided for women's skirts, sparking condemnation from kiltmakers and politicians alike.\" _from theIndependent_.\n\nOther sources:  \nBBCi  \nDaily Telegraph  \nThe Guardian  \nThe Herald  \nDaily Record\n\nIts not been a good week for the Scots having been knocked out in the world cup by a mediocre Australian side with some dubious refereeing decisions thrown in.",
  "title": "The Kilt is a women's skirt cry the EU Bureaucrats"
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