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glamour

A number of English words have Scots origins. Glamour, for example, comes from English grammar and Scottish gramarye (namely, occult learning or scholarship). It means magic, enchantment, spell.

reid

red, adj. comparative mair reid; superlative maist reid As early as the 15th century, criminals in Scotland were being “apprehendit  with the redhand”. It is not until the 19th century that Walter Scott used the form “red-handed” . The redness…