He’s just pointing out that she’s strange," Gabaldon says.
"To start with, she has a slight idea that it’s a derogatory term, but she knows he’s plainly not trying to insult her. Jamie eventually takes up the term for her, but he doesn't mean it as an insult. So, it seemed natural that someone would refer to Claire as a Sassenach," she continued. "Well, I had this English woman showing up, and I did know that Sassenach is in fact a fairly derogatory term for someone who is a foreigner, but specifically for an English person given the long and acrimonious relationship between England and Scotland. While I don’t speak Gaelic by any stretch of the imagination, we want a few little terms and sentences scattered around to give a flavor of the language," Gabaldon previously explained to T&C. "Very early on I began doing research as much as I could into Gaelic.
It all stems from the fact that Outlander author Diana Gabaldon, who wrote the books the popular Starz television show is based on, wanted a sprinkling of Gaelic in her text. So how did it become a kind of pet name for Jamie to call Claire?
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