Doric!

Simon_Wallace

An Edinburger born & bred but I lived in Eburdeen for two years, and loved the local dialect. Used to buy the Evening Express once a week for Buff Hardie's Far's the Paper to try to pick up a little more lingo.

I'm surprised noone mentioned the great rhyme about earwigs:

The horny gollach's an awesome beast,
Souple an' scaley;
He has twa horns an' a hantle o' feet
An' a forky tailie.

Cheers
Simon

twink

this is the official doric site

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/kist/index.hti

Violetta_2

Thing in one of the Sunday papers about a Doric film that's just been made called "One Day Removals" producer Mark Stirton starring Scott Ironside & Patrick Wight, hopefully out in July. Not much info but something for the Doric fan's to look out for.

Older_but_not_wiser_2

I saw the article in the Sunday Post today - hopefully it'll make an appearance down here in the central belt.

A comedy in Doric sounds like a good idea.

markstirton

Hello! My name is Mark Stirton and I am the director of the doric film in question. Nice to know people are open to the idea of a doric spoken movie. Cheers!

MS

Violetta_2

Hello Mark, thank's for posting, best of luck with the film & if you can please keep us posted with any updates re the film release date etc. Cheers

chica_fi

Fit like a'bdy?

Chavin'.

Faur ye gaun?

Duh ken.

Caul, isit?

Nae handy.

I love that people up here can have a whole conversation and only use one or two 'real' words!!!!!

Edinburghlass_2

*** sits with my Concise Scots Dictionary on my lap while I check if everyone is being nice to each other***

Since reading about Buff Hardie here its annoying me as I can't remember the name of the "group" and the tv programme, anyone

markstirton

Scotland the What?

kisk

I remember seeing Scotland the what a couple of times at His Majesties. The sketch that always sticks in my mind is the one about the Futret. A toy shop owner, Buff Hardy, phones up the late Princess of Wales to ask her what kind of Christmas present she’d like for her then new-born son, William. Couple of extracts below.

A futret. Div ye nae ken fit a futret is? Futret. F-E-R-R-E-T, futret.

Ye’d like a jumbo futret? No, it disnae hae a trunk. No, it’s got a string that ye pull, an’ it sings Run, Rabbit, Run. Weel, fit else div ye expect a futret tae sing?
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