Scottish dialect for gold; a precious yellow metal used for jewelry and currency.
From Scots 'gowd', a dialectal variant of English 'gold' (from Old English 'gold', from Proto-Germanic 'gulthaz'). Common in Scottish and Northern English dialect.
Dialect words like 'gowd' show that even well-known words have regional pronunciations—Scots and Northern English kept a pronunciation that Modern English dropped, preserving older sound patterns.
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