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We have some excellent terms for weather up here in the north-east of Scotland from "driech", "smirrie rain", "it's fair dinging doon", "blowing a hoolie", "it's minging outside" and probably heaps more.

He said: "Scots is a fantastic language with brilliantly descriptive words like driech, slitter or wheesht. "Each of these may have a comparable word in other languages, but translations just don't capture how expressive and illustrative the original Scots is.

Many colloquial words for rain are regional or have their roots in the Celtic nations, such as driech in Scots English and soft weather in the euphemism-laden Hiberno-English spoken in Ireland.

Na, it was a driech employ, and praise the Lord that I have warstled through with it!”

“Well, and that’s a driech subject, too, but Donald Roy would a hantle rather die with claymore in hand and the whiddering steel aboot his head than be always fearing to pay the piper,” said the young Highlander blithely.