We do 'Good lines' posts here periodically, so why not some 'Good words'? To start with how about the very good Scots word 'smeddum'. I think of it because yesterday a friend described one of my children as having smeddum, and if I explain that it means "spirit, energy, drive, vigorous commonsense and resourcefulness", you'll see that that was a compliment!
'Smeddum' is also the title of a book, a collection of work by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, coming from his acclaimed short story of the same name.
