Well, Peter, up this sleeve I have, aha! Summat wich ma huip(?) yoo, noo:

Gaelic Dictionaries or:

http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/index.html

Wirdleit(wordlist) for quick and easy lookups or:

http://www.umist.ac.uk/UMIST_CAL/Scots.wirdleit.htm

same site, Scots grammar/handbuik or:

http://www.umist.ac.uk/UMIST_CAL/Scots/handbuik.htm

And then for the biggie, which I learned about here at the Mudcat:

On-Line Dictionaries-EXTENSIVE!! or:

www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html

which will lead you to:

dialects or:

http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction4.html#dialects

and:

Slang or:

www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction5.html#slang

And, just for some fun using some of the colloquialisms I found, take a peek at this essay from a Glasgow paper. It's hillarious on politiclaly correctness:

PC Humour Essay

Think my new business will do good?**BG**