“But I digress…” The Scottish word “stravaig” comes from an obsolete word (“extravage”) that means “to digress, ramble.” That referred to a rambling speech pattern, like someone cutting themself off before getting too far off topic, but the word “stravaig” turned into a physical type of roaming. Someone might stravaig across the hills without a plan, just seeing where the day takes them. The word “stravaig” is more romantic than “getting lost.”