A Scottish highland cow - is it a laddie or lassie? Photo: Shutterstock/AFP
Snow joke – the Scots language has more words for snow than Inuit languages, a total of 421 including "snaw", "sneesl" and "skelf", researchers in Glasgow said Wednesday.
Other terms used to describe the white stuff that often coats Scotland's landscape during winter include "flindrikin" (a light snow shower), "feefle" (swirling snow) and "spitters" (small flakes of snow).
