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To: TokarevM57
(Sarc...correct identifier would have been “Scottish”....)

Maybe not. A customer of and engineers at 3M who invented modern tape referred to their cheap boss, calling it Scotch Tape.

The brand name Scotch came about around 1925 while Richard Drew was testing his first masking tape to determine how much adhesive he needed to add. The bodyshop painter became frustrated with the sample masking tape and exclaimed, "Take this tape back to those Scotch bosses of yours and tell them to put more adhesive on it!"[4][5] The name was soon applied to the entire line of 3M tapes. (WIKIPEDIA)
5 posted on 12/10/2019 10:45:13 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Dr. Sivana

....verrrrry interesting, laddie....
something to find interesting.... from a popular on-line dictionary.....in truth I do enjoy a dram or two of SCOTCH whisky from time to time....distilled and bottled in Scotland by SCOTTISH craftsmen.....

“Scotch is generally used in compounds (such as Scotch pine or Scotch whisky), and set phrases. Scottish is the preferred adjective; in cases where you are referring to the literature, character, or ancestry of the people of Scotland, it is generally correct to describe them as Scottish.”


6 posted on 12/10/2019 11:46:29 AM PST by TokarevM57
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