Although I don't fall for the argument that Scots is a 'language' in its own right (a glance through a Scots dictionary will show that almost all the words are simply slight variants on their English equivalents), some words in the local dialect are spot-on when used in the local context. One such word is 'dreich' (pronounced with a throat-clearing 'ch' at the end), which is used to describe dull, cold, drizzly days. Although such days are most common in the autumn and winter, yesterday was dreich in the extreme. The temperature hovered between 5 C and 6 C all day, and the leaden skies never opened; they just dribbled off and on.
Today seems much more springlike, and the next few days are supposed to be almost warm, so the contrast is all the more noticeable.
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