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@gameragodzilla Because it comes historically from a group the English crown had to round up scottish insurgents.
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@gameragodzilla So its less Scotland Yard in terms of "a yard from scotland" and more like "a yard we put the scottish sods in when they get uppity"
(Neither is really anything to do with the name really haha, but I'm just going with the obvious imagery from the name)
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@gameragodzilla The Scottish were the one of the UK nations that historically posed an actual credible military threat to the English crown, so they got a lot of "special attention".