Language: a total scunner?
An article by Graeme Trousdale
When I first moved to Scotland about twelve years ago, I didn’t have a scoobie what a scunner was. I didn’t have a scoobie what a scoobie was either, but I managed to work that one out. But scunner I just couldn’t get. I knew it was something bad: everybody who used it only used it when they looked angry. So I looked it up in the Concise Scots Dictionary, and there it was. What a great word, and what a great history it has....
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