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To: Tax-chick

The examples you give are place-names taken from people-names, as opposed to the lady named Scotland, which is the opposite.

Scotland is derived from the Latin "Scotti", which was a Roman "people-name".

47 posted on 06/28/2015 2:05:38 PM PDT by SeeSharp

To: SeeSharp

Point.

48 posted on 06/28/2015 2:06:12 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)

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