Editing Hawick (section)

===Culture===
[[File:Hornshole Statue, Hawick.jpg|thumb|upright|The "Return from Hornshole" statue, erected in 2014 and funded by the Common Riding Committee of the town.]]

The town hosts the annual [[Common Riding]], which combines the annual riding of the boundaries of the town's common land with the commemoration of a victory of local youths over an English raiding party in 1514. In March 2007, this was described by the ''[[Rough Guide]]'' publication ''World Party'' as one of the best parties in the world.<ref>{{Cite news |date=13 March 2007 |title=Guide book praises common riding |publisher=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/6441611.stm |url-status=dead |access-date=16 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070314194606/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/6441611.stm |archive-date=14 March 2007}}</ref>

People from Hawick call themselves "Teries", after a traditional song which includes the line "[[Teribus ye teri odin]]".

Hawick and surrounding border residents are known to possess a dialect and accent slightly different from broader Scots, being classed as [[Southern Scots]] or Borders Scots.<ref name="BorderScots">{{cite web|url=https://www.scotslanguage.com/Scots_regional_dialects/Borders_Scots| title=Borders Scots |publisher=Scots Language Centre |access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref><ref name="Voices">{{cite web|url=https://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/BBC-Voices/021M-C1190X0043XX-1501V0| title=Conversation in Hawick about accent, dialect and attitudes to language.  |publisher=BBC Voices (British Library) |access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref><ref name="TES">{{cite journal |last1=Taylor |first1=Alan |date=2019 |title=H is for Hawick. |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A632221452/AONE?u=tou&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=5e0a4abd |journal=TLS. Times Literary Supplement |volume=July |issue=6069 |pages=17 |access-date=}}</ref> For example, the term a "Hawick Gill" is a large measure of spirits, equivalent to 0.28&nbsp;litre (half a pint).<ref name="Brewers"/>