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Date Posted: 3/8/2010 8:15:28 pm EST
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Useful Scots Word: Glamour

Author: Betty Kirkpatrick Source: Caledonian Mercury

Title: USEFUL SCOTS WORD: GLAMOUR
Many of the televised reports on the recent Oscars ceremony were as much concerned with what the rich and famous were wearing as with the identity of the winners and the losers. There for us all to see was the fact that Hollywood is still synonymous with glamour. But what is this do with Scots? A great deal, because the word glamour has its origin in the Scots language.
Glamour in Scots meant enchantment, magic or witchcraft. It also meant a spell, especially one that affected the eyesight of the recipient of the spell, as in to cast the glamour ower the een. If this happened to you, your view of things became very different from the reality.
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| Grammoire? | Mar 9th. at 4:03:56 pm EST
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