The Caledonian Mercury - Scottish news, stories and intelligent analysis Useful Scots word: Bodach
When I was a child my father often used to refer to our neighbour as the bodach. I see that the pronunciation of this is given in some Scots dictionaries as bode-ach, the stress being on the first syllable and the ch being pronounced as the ch in loch, rather than as the ch in much. My father, however, pronounced bodach with a t rather than a