OK, this peaked my curiosity. Here is the Wikipedia explanation of the word Schottische, which end's with the following:
"Despite the name, this dance has no direct relation with Scotland. The word Schottische is from Germany , not Scotland (the Germans referred to it as Schottische, which means Scottish, for some reason)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schottische Actually, the following site seems to be a better explanation:
http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3schot.htm Scott
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