by Gordon Mackay | Nov 26, 2019 | Doric Blog
My name is Antonia Uri, I am 23 years old and I was brought up in the countryside in-between Mintlaw and Longside. Preserving the Doric dialect is extremely important to me because it is a huge part of who I am, and is something that ties me to my home no matter where...
by Gordon Mackay | Nov 23, 2019 | Doric Blog
(written especially for Doric Future) DORIC Fit is “Doric”? Doric is the wye north-East folk spik. I suppose ye wid ca’ it an accent or a dialect. Fin I wis a loon, I didna’ ken that I spoke Doric or hid an accent. Ye see, the wye I spoke wis learnt at my midder’s...
by Gordon Mackay | Nov 22, 2019 | Doric Blog
The importance of videoing oral history to document not only how the Doric language is spoken, but also on how we look. There are certain features that mark a Doric face, shaped possibly by the environment we are brought up in. Bessie Cordiner Wilkins has a great...
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