Any map in the US may well show a place name that derives from Scotland, or another country where the immigrants from it settled and wanted to feel at home. Scotland, Connecticut. Paris, Maine. Berlin, Connecticut. Toledo, Ohio, etc. Around Philadelphia, for Welsh derivations, see Bryn Mawr.
For Scotland, see //www.st-andrews.ac.uk/institutes/sassi/spns/index.
Go to the home page at www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/freefun/didyouknow/placenames/.
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