why was scotch corner called scotch corner?
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The name originates from being the junction where travellers to eastern Scotland (via A1 and/or A68) are separated from travellers to western Scotland (via A66 and M6/A74(M)/M74).
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Probably because it lies under the Scotia Sea, which sits between Tierra Del Fuego and the Antarctic. The sea was named after a shipped that explored there, The Scotia.
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slightly off the point but did you know where curfew comes from.  William the Conquerer set this tradition up in Startford Upon Avon.  at 7.55pm people had to return to thier house to cover thier fires and cease the flame from burning. (cessez-le-feu) this in turn got people off the street hence where curfew began.\n\nNo idea what you mean about the one in Scotland though sorry.
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It's a corruption of the word 'haddocks'. Think it started in the thirties. Charlton always treated the opposition to fish & chips, they didn't bother to ask everyone what they wanted, just ordered haddock & chips for all. The visiting team would call them the haddocks, ie; ''we're playing the haddocks next''. Over time it became corrupted to 'addicks'.
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It was named after William Penn, leader of the Society of Friends, otherwise known as the Quakers. In the late 1600's, the state of Pennsylvania was the home base for the Quakers, and a considered a bastion for religious and racial tolerance among the 13 colonies that were otherwise dogmatic and puritanical.
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Variation of Cairns:\n\nScots:topographic name for someone who lived by a cairn i.e. pile of stones raised as a boundary marker or a memorial\n\nGaelic: The surname comes mainly , if not exclusively, from lands in the parish of Mid-Calder, Lothian
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of it name, the name\nhttp://www.philipdru.com/griffin3_stream.html
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The most likely answer is that it is a  deliberate\nmisspelling of Charlie, the usual nickname for\nCharles.  I seem to remember seeing it used this\nway in print, but can't remember where.
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There are at least two possible origins, and both seem pretty believable:\n\nFirst: In the days of sailing ships when Sailors were paid a pittance, seamen drank their ale in taverns whose keepers were willing to extend credit until payday. Since many of he sailors were illiterate, inn keepers kept a tally of pints and quarts consumed by each sailor on a chalkboard behind the bar. Next to each person's name, a mark was made under "P" for pint or "Q" for quart whenever a seaman ordered another draught. \n\nOn payday, each seaman was liable for each mark next to his name, so he was forced to "mind his P's and Q's" or he would get into financial trouble. To ensure an accurate count by unscrupulous keepers, sailors had to keep their wits and remain somewhat sober. Sobriety usually ensured good behavior, hence the meaning of "mind your P's and Q's." \n\nSecond: "Mind your P's and Q's" is thought to have originated with printers who set headlines using movable type. If you've ever seen old type, you know the letters are mirror images of the regular alphabet. Lower-case P's look like Q's and vice versa. "Mind your P's and Q's" was a reminder not to mix up the letters when putting them back in the rack after use.
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I know Frank McAvennie played for St Mirren. I would ask a Scotsman but I canna understand it.
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This mainly British colloquial expression is recorded only from the 1960s, but is certainly older. Its origin is uncertain. Some argue it may be from cods, an old term for the testicles that derives from the Anglo-Saxon sense of cod, a bag. It is also suggested that wallop may be connected with the dialect term meaning to chatter or scold (not with the word meaning a heavy blow).\nOne explanation has it that it refers to the late Hiram Codd, who—despite his archetypally American first name—was British, born in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk in 1838. He spent his life working in the soft drinks business. In the 1870s, he designed and patented a method of sealing a glass bottle by means of a ball in its neck, which the pressure of the gas in the fizzy drink forced against a rubber washer. Making the bottle was a technical challenge, since the ball necessarily had to be larger than the diameter of the neck. It was only in 1876, when he teamed up with a Yorkshire glass blower named Ben Rylands, that the answer was found. The Codd bottle was an immediate success; surviving examples are now highly collectable. You opened them by pushing the ball into the neck, and openers in the shape of short, thin cylinders were supplied for the purpose. One unexpected problem was that children smashed the bottles to use the glass balls as marbles.\nThe suggestion is that drinkers who preferred their tipple to have alcohol in it were dismissive of Mr Codd’s soft drinks. As beer was often called wallop, they referred sneeringly to the fizzy drink as Codd’s wallop, and the resulting word later spread its meaning to refer to anything considered to be rubbish.\nThis story reeks of the approach to word history called folk etymology. As one writer has put it, it seems rather too neat an explanation to be true. But nobody’s come up with anything better.
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Prohibition. A sailer named McCoy used to sail out past the international sea border to pick up name-brand liquor and run it back to the US past the Coast Guard. Unlike his competitors, he would not water the liquor down or blend it with inferior products, so people in speakeasys would ask for "the real McCoy."
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"Back in the day", street names were often just given based on where the road went.  If the road went to London, it was called London Road.  If the road was the main street in the town, it was called Main Street.\n\nNowadays, property developers normally include street name proposals in the plans they put forward to the local councils for approval and planning permission
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There are many theories explaining the origin of the word. The debate is still open on that one.\n\nBritish troops gave new derogatroy meaning to the word when the played the song Yankee Doodle Dandy as an insult to the citizens of Boston ("doodle" was a slang word for 'dolt' or 'penis')\nThe version of the song we know today has been altered from the original.\n\nAfter the battles at Lexington and Concord, the Americans taunted the retreating British with the word, giving it a new complimentary sense.\n\nIt now generally refers to an American, without intending to insult.\nIt's most often used to describe residents of the New England states. It's simply a slang word no different than calling a Nova Scotian a "Bluenoser" (after the schooner), or someone from Ontario and "Upper Canuck". They are fun words that add colour to our speech.
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According to the English, it is derived from a place name indicating that they came from a place near the woods, or perhaps a grove of trees. My guess is that it is of Scandinavian origin and can be found all over Northern Europe.
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I think its called Fernbank, this is my best guess.
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The name Dublin comes from Dubh Linn meaning 'Black Pool'. Dublin Castle was built on a ridge where the River Liffey and its tributary the Poddle met. The Liffey is estimated to have been at least four times wider than at present and was liable to flash flooding . The junction formed a large pool, where the present gardens of the Castle are, and was the ancient anchorage for the Viking Longships.  The waters of the Liffey were then, and are still, tinged a deep brown by a subterranean peat bog, which underlies the foundations of the city. The river Poddle still runs under the Olympia Theatre.