Guest Author - Susan Keeping

Like most languages, the Scottish language has changed and grown throughout the years. Sometimes when you read a poem or a story that uses a lot of Scottish colloquial speech you can get lost. Sure, you can try and figure out the words by what the author is writing about but sometimes you are mistaken as to what the words meant at the time of he or she wrote it. Knowing exactly what the words mean makes it easier for you to understand what the author was trying to say. I hope this glossary will help give you a better understanding of Scottish poems and prose and therefore help you to enjoy them all the more.

Glossary of Scottish Words A-B

Glossary of Scottish Words C

Glossary of Scottish Words D-E

Glossary of Scottish Words F

Glossary of Scottish Words G

Glossary of Scottish Words H

Glossary of Scottish Words, I-K

Glossary of Scottish Words, L

Glossary of Scottish Words, M-P

Glossary of Scottish Words, Q-R

Glossary of Scottish Words, S

Glossary of Scottish Words, T

Glossary of Scottish Words, U-Y

Surprisingly, or not, there are no words that I could find in the Scottish dialect ending with X or with Z. Part of it seems to be that these letters are not popular letters in the English/Western language. If anyone knows more about the letters X and Z, please let me know and I'll pass it on to our readers.