Scottish word of the week: Bonnie
Though, like its French antecedent, it can also used to describe something as being good, it more often applies to praise towards the fairer sex - “a bonnie lassie”.
Bonnie is also a girls’ name - some famous ones include singer Bonnie Tyler, Bonnie and Clyde, and actress Bonnie Wright. You may have noticed a lack of Scottish examples. Despite its provenance, Bonnie is a far more popular name in the US than in Scotland.
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Hide AdA word that remains in fairly common use to this day, a recent Scotsman story about opposition to houseboats on Loch Lomond ran with the headline: Houseboats? Not on our ‘bonnie banks’, say Loch Lomond Association.