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It’s not enough to just say “wet and windy” in Scotland as over 100 Scottish words exist for ‘rain’ alone.

It’s not enough to just say “wet and windy” in Scotland as over 100 Scottish words exist for ‘rain’ alone, among others.

There are so many word and phrases to describe Scottish weather, especially when it's cold, damp and wet... what a surprise. We've pulled together some of our favourite most commonly used Scottish winter words.

Stick mannie’s lanely, Stick Mannie’s lost Stick Mannie’s frozen, all happit wi frost Stick Mannie’s wabbit – a snooze wid be braw.

SOUK Yesterday was St Magnus Day, patron saint of Orkney, which put me in mind of this week’s word. Ever since Scotland emerged at the end of what scholars no longer call “the Dark Ages”, it has been a multilingual nation. A time-traveller visiting what is now Scotland around the year 1000 would encounter speakers of Old Northumbrian in the south-east, of Celtic varieties across large swathes of the country, and of Old Norse (Norroen or “Norn”), the language of the Vikings, in the far north and dotted around the coast and islands. Shetland and Orkney, in particular, were settled b...