A handful of French loanwords established themselves only in Scotland (which had become
increasingly English in character during the early Middle English period, with Gaelic pushed
further and further into the Highlands and Islands), including bonnie and fash. Distinctive
spellings like "quh"
for "wh"
took hold (e.g. quhan and quhile for whan and while), and the
Scottish accent gradually became more and more pronounced, particularly after Edward I's
inconclusive attempts at annexation. Scottish English's radically distinct evolution only
petered out in the 17th Century after King James united the crowns of Scotland and
England (1603), and the influence of a strongly emerging Standard English came to bear
during the Early Modern period.