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Elphinstone Kist -
The Official Doric site
Learn some of the Doric here
This is the first part of my wee collection of Scottish words ie
"Doric Scots" Hope you enjoy and learn some Scottish Words. "Doric" is
the Toung of Scotlands North East called Mither Toung!
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Scotland Resources
John Henderson's Songs mostly in
the Doric Language
Johnny Gibb Of Gushetneuk By William Alexander 1881
Poems of W. D. Cocker
Doric
Dialects and Doric Poets of North-East Scotland by John Henderson
Doric Lays
(pdf)
A Whiff o' the Doric
By George P. Dunbar ("Stoneywood") (1922) (pdf)
TO the poems of Mr. Dunbar no introduction is necessary in this part of
the country. "Stoneywood" is a familiar nom de plume in several
newspapers, and a previous volume of verse, "A Guff o' Peat Reek," in no
wise belied its title, for the edition vanished swiftly and easily, like
a wisp of peat smoke. Copies are now unobtainable, and a like good
fortune should attend the present collection. The Doric to-day, one is
reluctantly compelled to fear, is in a condition far from robust.
Vernacular writing in the strict and traditional dialect has tended to
lose flexibility, and to present itself as something in our world but
not of it. as an anachronism, as a curiosity; and its effect is not to
revivify the Scots tongue. But verse in the easy current speech of the
people, verse such as Mr. Dunbar writes happily, brightly, and with
facility, finds at once its ready audience. It does not seek after words
and phrases that have fallen into disuse, nor does it hanker after any
flourish or ornament which is not in keeping with its own fresh and
natural simplicity. To the country people the faithful pictures drawn in
the poems which follow will be a welcome and striking reflection of a
style of life that is fast disappearing, while the songs Mr. Dunbar's
especial strength are frequently melodious with that quiet, almost
plaintive melody which goes straight to the heart to cheer and refresh
it. Principally because "Stoneywood" has looked at his world and knows
his nation and because he shuns all the devious paths which lead away
from the true, unaffected, human spirit of the Doric, these poems fulfil
those high hopes which inspire so many writers as they murmur their
valedictory, "Go, little book." A. K. Aberdeen. |
