A Skinful of Scotch by Clifford Hanley

The subtitle is “The guidebook that guides you to nothing–except what the Scot is really like.” Hanley’s writing to be quite amusing with some of the funniest stories I’ve ever read, but I also found the book to be informative. So, if you want to know about “Auld Reekie” or a multitude of quirky Scottish facts, this is a book to read.

Hanley is well-published, a known and respected journalist and humorist, but he also has an autobiography and three novels. The MOST interesting bit of information was that he was the man who wrote the words for “Scotland the Brave”, which is an unofficial anthem of Scotland


anyway
Auntie
Ayrshire
bar
beautiful
bit
bloke
Bo'ness
boat
body
bottle
boys
Bridge
Burke and Hare
Burns
bus
Catholic
Charlie
Clyde
Compton Mackenzie
crowd
dark
dinghy
door
dream
drink
drunk
Dundee
Edin
Edinburgh
eh
English
everything
fell
Festival
first-foot
Firth of Clyde
fun
Glasgow
Glaswegians
happened
hell
Highland
Hogmanay
invented
Inverness
island
Jackie Green
Jimmy
John