""Scotch as a verb (meaning to stop) has no connection with Scotch as an adjective. And scot as a tax has nothing to do with Scot as a person.""

Why thank you sir for enlightening this poor ignorant Englishman.

I hadn't realised that!

Aside:- "Let's see if if sarcasm is easier to recognise than irony!....LOL".

Don T.