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Regional dialects and the many meanings of dreich.
When on tour, comic actress Elaine C. Smith has encountered a lot of dreich weather but also many different Scots dialects that vary from town to town. She gives a few examples of her favourite regional words that are in everyday usage, like the Glaswegian expression 'bowfin'.
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