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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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