
For over a decade, The Herald has published the Scottish Language Dictionaries’ Scots Word of the Week. From this collection, editor Pauline Cairns Speitel has compiled 100 Favourite Scots Words, ranging from lesser-known Older Scots to formal language to ‘contemporary slang’. Favourites include; affront, baffies, capercailzie, dingie, first fit, glaikit, Hogmanay, jalousie, laldie, numpty, onding, pawkie, scunner, thrapple, wean, yeukie