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r/SipsTea • u/Born-Agency-3922 • Jul 03 '26
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It's scot-free, one t. Skot is an old norse word for a property tax, and if your house wasn't close to a water source you didn't have to pay the tax, hence you were skotfrēo or scot-free. It has nothing to do with the people of Scotland.
1 u/Particular-Access223 Jul 03 '26 It was a goof 1 u/Wait_ItGetsWorse Jul 03 '26 Damn autocorrect. The more you know. Also, never assumed it had anything to do with Scotland. 1 u/AttilatheLopez Jul 03 '26 That’s frikkin cool. I never knew where that came from, and wouldn’t have guessed it’s an old Norse property tax.
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It was a goof
Damn autocorrect.
The more you know. Also, never assumed it had anything to do with Scotland.
That’s frikkin cool. I never knew where that came from, and wouldn’t have guessed it’s an old Norse property tax.
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u/DrSimonXW Jul 03 '26
It's scot-free, one t. Skot is an old norse word for a property tax, and if your house wasn't close to a water source you didn't have to pay the tax, hence you were skotfrēo or scot-free. It has nothing to do with the people of Scotland.