Doric dialect (Scotland)

Scots language
History
Dialects
A Doric Scots speaker, recorded in Scotland

Doric, the popular name for Mid Northern Scots[1] or Northeast Scots,[2] refers to the Scots language as spoken in the northeast of Scotland. There is an extensive body of literature, mostly poetry, ballads, and songs, written in Doric. In some literary works, Doric is used as the language of conversation while the rest of the work is in Lallans Scots or British English.[3] A number of 20th and 21st century poets have written poetry in the Doric dialect.

  1. ^ Robert McColl Millar (2007) Northern and insular Scots Edinburgh University Press. p. 3
  2. ^ Ana Deumert & Wim Vandenbussche (2003) Germanic standardizations: past to present. John Benjamins. p. 385
  3. ^ McClure, J. Derrick (1 January 1987). "'Lallans' and 'Doric' in North-Eastern Scottish Poetry". English World-Wide. 8 (2): 215–234. doi:10.1075/eww.8.2.04mcc.