For the z'englishs - z'scotishs and z'irish

[debianuser]

Ok ok...

it's a dumb question ... i know ...

why is the english police called "Scotland Yard"... I though Scotish hated English and vice versa ... goes the same with the Irish...

so english boys... what's the whole deal with calling your police "scotland yard"

i warned ya... it's a dumb question....

:roll: :arrow:

[VaKo]

http://www.met.police.uk/

Scotland Yard is a place in London, its where the MET or metroplitan police (the main london police force) have there head quaters. Its not even a actual police station, has no cells, so its just kinda like a office block.

[metatron]

The English don’t dislike the Scottish, they just don’t care about them. A lot of Scottish people dislike the English as they are still holding a grudge that we run everything (less of an issue now they have a bit more control, over their country).

The London police force, which was established in 1829 and had its first administrative headquarters at No. 4 Whitehall, a street in Westminster, in a neighborhood of government buildings. Out back was a plot of land long known as Great Scotland Yard where a public entrance was built.

The origin of the name Scotland Yard is not certain. One theory mentions that the land was once owned by a Mr. Adam Scot, while another suggests that the land had been set aside as a London residence for the Kings of Scotland, which was never built. Early in the 17th century, noted architects Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren lived in a house on the site, as did poet John Milton.

By 1887, the Yard was running out of space, and a new building was constructed on the Thames Embankment. After numerous expansions, New Scotland Yard was built in 1967 on Victoria Street. We found a picture of this modern office building at Britannica.com's Scotland Yard entry, which mentioned that Great Scotland Yard had in fact been the site of a London palace used by visiting Scottish kings in medieval times.

[debianuser]

http://www.met.police.uk/

Scotland Yard is a place in London, its where the MET or metroplitan police (the main london police force) have there head quaters. Its not even a actual police station, has no cells, so its just kinda like a office block.

well then... why calling the police Scotland Yard? i did not ask what was Scotland Yard... more why is it called that way... it would be a bit stupid to call a police according to an office place in a certain location.

"well Prime Minister... let's called the police Scotland Yard.."

"why George?"

"well.... because you know that old building located in Scotland Yard?.... ya well that's why...."

:roll:

[metatron]

http://www.met.police.uk/

Scotland Yard is a place in London, its where the MET or metroplitan police (the main london police force) have there head quaters. Its not even a actual police station, has no cells, so its just kinda like a office block.

well then... why calling the police Scotland Yard? i did not ask what was Scotland Yard... more why is it called that way... it would be a bit stupid to call a police according to an office place in a certain location.

"well Prime Minister... let's called the police Scotland Yard.."

"why George?"

"well.... because you know that old building located in Scotland Yard?.... ya well that's why...."

:roll:

The origin of the name Scotland Yard is not certain. One theory mentions that the land was once owned by a Mr. Adam Scot, while another suggests that the land had been set aside as a London residence for the Kings of Scotland, which was never built. Early in the 17th century, noted architects Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren lived in a house on the site, as did poet John Milton.

By 1887, the Yard was running out of space, and a new building was constructed on the Thames Embankment. After numerous expansions, New Scotland Yard was built in 1967 on Victoria Street. We found a picture of this modern office building at Britannica.com's Scotland Yard entry, which mentioned that Great Scotland Yard had in fact been the site of a London palace used by visiting Scottish kings in medieval times.

[debianuser]

The origin of the name Scotland Yard is not certain. One theory mentions that the land was once owned by a Mr. Adam Scot, while another suggests that the land had been set aside as a London residence for the Kings of Scotland, which was never built. Early in the 17th century, noted architects Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren lived in a house on the site, as did poet John Milton.

By 1887, the Yard was running out of space, and a new building was constructed on the Thames Embankment. After numerous expansions, New Scotland Yard was built in 1967 on Victoria Street. We found a picture of this modern office building at Britannica.com's Scotland Yard entry, which mentioned that Great Scotland Yard had in fact been the site of a London palace used by visiting Scottish kings in medieval times.

So in all and all... We don't know..... hmm... still a bit stupid to keep calling your police "scotland yard"... I mean if somehow you don't know why you call it that way... then why keeping call it that way?

Regarding what you said Metatron about Scotish and English... i think there is more into it than just the Scotish hating the English because of controlling their lands....

[VaKo]

Even the history of english names, i'd guess no one could be arsed to say "the police from soctland yard", so it was shortened to "scotland yard", because everyone knew they were the top guys.

As for scotland v england, scotland was never invaded by the romans, or the french. So there main cultural infulences came from the germanic and celtish backgrounds, rather than the inital roman influences and french cultural stamp in the south. This ment that the south of the country traded more with the central european population, which hightend the differences. But the royalty did intermarry. Its kinda complex, but when the english invaded, and then later when James 1st/6th became the english king as well as the scottish king.

Long story short the monarcy was so intermingled with ireland, scotland, wales and england, we just kinda consolidated the monarcy into a single unit. Probally to save on cermony costs. But the people in all these area's all have cultural differences based on there heritiage. Mostly its not serious, kinda like hating the next town over.