But there’s one word that rules the roost when it comes to evoking the predominant weather of Scotland - dreich. In recent ...

It may not be chucking it down but a dreich day is damp, dreary, bleak and demoralising. In Edinburgh, the sea fog that they get in the East of Scotland is called a Haar. Some etymologists claim ...

In Jackie Kay’s poem, 'Old Tongue', she lists the words the speaker had to stop using when they moved to England as a child: “Words fell off my tongue: eedyit, dreich, wabbit, crabbit ...