It can often be a source of bafflement for outsiders (and often, a source of hilarity for Scots) but confusion over the different meaning of words in Scotland has been around for generations.
Thankfully, it doesn't take long to master the basics, and most outsiders will soon be joining in with the local lingo before long.
Here are some of our favourites.
1. Messages - What it usually means: Verbal or written communications.
Meaning in Scotland: Your shopping.
2. Piece - What it usually means: A part of something.
Meaning in Scotland: A sandwich.
3. Greeting - What it usually means: A polite welcome.
Meaning in Scotland: To cry.
4. How - What it usually means: How
Meaning in Scotland: To question Why?
5. Coo - What it usually means: The noise a pigeon makes.
Meaning in Scotland: A cow (normally a Highland Cow)
6. Cry - What it usually means: To sob.
Meaning in Scotland: Call (as in what do you call him?).
7. Steaming - What it usually means: Emitting steam.
Meaning in Scotland: Very drunk.
8. Burn - What it usually means: to harm using fire.
Meaning in Scotland: A wee stream.
9. Winch - What it usually means: A mechanism using rope that pulls or lifts things.
Meaning in Scotland: To kiss.
10. Coupon - What it usually means: a voucher to get discount on something.
Meaning in Scotland: A face.
11. Baltic - What it usually means: Relating to the Baltic Sea or the region surrounding it.
Meaning in Scotland: It’s frozen.
12. Aboot - What is usually means: A form of footwear.
Meaning in Scotland: About.
13. Close - What it usually means: Nearby.
Meaning in Scotland: The passageway leading into a tenement building.
14. Empty - What it usually means: The opposite of full.
Meaning in Scotland: An excuse for a party.
15. Fit - What it usually means: Sporty.
Meaning in Scotland: How? (Doric)
16. Flit - What it usually means: To move swiftly and lightly.
Meaning in Scotland: To move house.
17. Honking - What it usually means: The noise a goose makes.
Meaning in Scotland: Stinking
18. Ned - What it usually means: A shortened version of Edward (as in Ned Flanders)
Meaning in Scotland: A troublemaker
19. Patter - What it usually means: To make a repeated light tapping sound.
Meaning in Scotland: To be good with words, funny.
20. Patch - What it usually means: A piece of cloth used to mend a torn piece of clothing.
Meaning in Scotland: To ignore someone.
21. Ken - What it usually means: The male version of Barbie.
Meaning in Scotland: Know.
