Gerard Butler Gives a Humorous Tutorial on Several Traditional Scottish Slang Terms and Expressions

While promoting his film Den of Thieves, Scottish actor Gerard Butler sat down with Vanity Fair to rather humorously define a series of geographically specific slang terms and expressions that he heard and used while growing up in Glasgow.

Bonnie is maybe my favorite Scottish word you know. You say bonnie Scotland and a bonnie wee
lass. It means lovely beautiful sweet.

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