Ah - you mean this is another word that left home a couple of centuries ago and eventually got misused by the dominions? Like pasty...

PS - 'Scotch' is a type of alcoholic spirit and is never used to refer to the people or the language - it is a sad sign of a poor upbringing to not understand these fine points of linguistics I feel :~P :~P :~P

(I really must import some icons over here...!!)