Scotland Lakes ?

[logman]

How many lakes in scotland ?

[dotjhawkes]

One The Lake of Mentieth

[Peachtree]

Lake of Mentieth, the rest are Lochs.

[nickmo]

Named by an Englishman apparently when map making, who couldn't understand 'laigh' - Gaelic for low ground viz. low lying.

Used to be called the Loch of Menteith til the 19th C. when Victorians though the parkland setting was nice and so called it a lake and called it that on the maps.....

And discuss the English naming bits of Scotland here..............