It is the language of our everyday conversations, made famous by Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, Edinburgh slang throws up more than a few distinct words.
But where do some of our favourite expressions come from, like "munter", “that’s barry” and "ya gadge"?
Scholars suggest that we here in Edinburgh owe a lot of our local words to Romani speech, passed on through the language of travelling people that immigrated to Britain from the sixteenth century onwards.
Editor of Scottish Dictionaries online, Pauline Cairns Speitel, gave a number of examples of modern day slang that originated from Romani.
She writes that the word "munter" (slang for an unattractive person) is a development from a Gypsy word "munt", meaning to weep.
Adding that "Barry" (slang used to describe something very good of its type) has also been borrowed from the Romani word "barri", which also means "big or great".
Whereas radge, or raj (slang for a mad, crazy idiot or fool and one of Begbie's favourite words) is thought to be a variant of the Gypsy word "raj" or "rajy", which has the exact same meaning.
Even "gadge", or "gadgie", that has come to mean a man in Scots, was originally used by travellers to refer to an outsider.
This is just a small selection of words, there are many, many more that come from the language of travelling people like "deek" (look) and "nash" (running away).
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