by Gordon Mackay | Jun 6, 2021 | Doric Blog, Doric Blog - Language and Culture
Fin Aaron Gale (author/illustrator) an Jackie Ross (storyteller) got igither their imaginations gaed wild! They stairtit tae dream braw dreams. Widn’t it be gran iv mair stories wir telt in Doric sae folk cud enjoy readin an hearin thir mither tongue mair...
by Gordon Mackay | Dec 3, 2020 | Doric Blog - Language and Culture, Doric Blog - People / Culture
Although a ‘Toon Loon’ I came from countra’ stock spending many of my holidays on farms at Westhill Murtle, Skene or Fordoun near to Lewis Grassick Gibbon territory, where I had an uncle who was a tractorman. Although used to Aiberdeen Doric I was attracted to the...
by Gordon Mackay | Nov 10, 2020 | Doric Blog - Language and Culture, Doric Blog - People / Culture
I grew up in Buckie with an English mum and Scots dad, and consider myelf “bi-lingual”. As a student in St Andrews, I recall phoning my parents from the payphone in the corridor on my first night away from home and prattling away in my native dialect, much to the...
by Gordon Mackay | Nov 1, 2020 | Doric Blog - Language and Culture, Doric Blog - People / Culture
1st November 2020 If you want to share what we do with others, this is a great wee video to motivate them to join our Doric TN Community. To watch the video, click the play button on the section below. Join the Doric TV Community today We very much hope you will join...
by Gordon Mackay | Oct 1, 2020 | Doric Blog - Language and Culture, Doric Blog - Music / Culture
I wis born and broucht up in Tornaveen in rural Aiberdeenshie, wi parents fae Buchan wi i doric aye being spoken and encourged tae use it. Nooadays I sing sangs that tell i stories o i North East and beyond in Doric and Scots, It a vital pairt o the culture and...
by Gordon Mackay | Sep 22, 2020 | Doric Blog - Language and Culture, Doric Blog - People / Culture
Doric belangs te you an me: it’s in the quait o the countryside an the steer o the toons; it’s in the land, the sky an the sea; it’s in the wealth o culture an heritage; it’s in the lives o oor ain folk, past an present, their sangs, stories, an their rich,...
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