by Gordon Mackay | Dec 31, 2019 | Doric Blog - People / Culture
(written especially for Doric Future) I would like to introduce you to Our Doric Man, From “Down Under”! This lovely Australian man originally from Crathie, Aberdeenshire, contacted me when he started to watch some of my videos from Aberdeenshire on you tube. When I...
by Gordon Mackay | Nov 26, 2019 | Doric Blog - Language and Culture, Doric Blog - People / Culture
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 - People / Culture
(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 - People / Culture
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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