by Gordon Mackay | Jun 19, 2020 | Doric Blog - Language and Culture
Let’s no beat roon the bush – the Scots leid is haein a richt wee Renaissance tae itsel the noo. The leid’s presence in leiterature, poyetry, clessrooms, newspapers, social media, an the public consciousness is growin bi the day. Fir the first time, thair’s a growin...
by Gordon Mackay | Jun 17, 2020 | Press Release
Scots Language News Aathin ye need tae ken aboot the Scots leid North East filmmakker feart for the futur o Doric By Antonia Uri North East filmmakker feart for the futur o Doric Play this audio recording to hear Antonia Uri spiken the doric Jill Cantlay...
by Gordon Mackay | Jun 12, 2020 | Press Release
Jill McWilliam wants to keep Doric alive.. Copyright: Steve Cramphorn A FILMMAKER from Aberdeenshire has found a new international audience for her videos about the Buchan coastline during lockdown. Jill McWilliam, who runs the Doric Future website, began recording...
by Gordon Mackay | Jun 8, 2020 | Doric Blog - Language and Culture
John grew up in Kingston-upon-Spey, the small village that sits to the west of the mouth of the River Spey. He worked on an oar on the salmon nets in the late 1980s, and then did a season as a grouse beater the summer after. He went Milne’s High School and Elgin...
by Gordon Mackay | Jun 8, 2020 | Doric Blog - People / Culture, Doric Blog - Walking / Well Being
‘The Therapeutic Value of Coastline’ I was once asked where my favourite place was, ‘outside’ I quipped but a moment’s reflection led me to qualify it; ‘in nature’. Cities, completely man made, assault the senses with artificially loud noises, a barrage of...
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