The Doric Quine

28/12/2023

Gin ye're bored, guess fit ess is.
[Wrang answers only, syne it wis guessed as quick!]

30/09/2023

as in "yon film gave me a richt fleg!"

Scots Word of the Week: FLEG

I heard this used recently in the context of someone getting a fright. In the Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) it is defined as: “a fright, a scare”.

This sense comes relatively late to DSL. Earlier use was mainly as a verb, exemplified in James Melvill’s Diary and Autobiography (1600): “When courtlie wolffes from Chrystes flok be flegged”.

DSL’s first citation of the noun comes from Ramsay’s poems (1721): “Has some Bogle-bo Glowrin frae ’mang the auld Waws gi’en ye a fleg”.

Examples are plentiful from the nineteenth century, including this very modern-sounding one from Sir Walter Scott’s Rob Roy (1818): “I got a fleg and was ready to jump out o’ my skin”.

Published in 1945, Violet Jacob’s poem Neep-Fields by the Sea gives us: “I’ the lang rows plantit atween the wa’s, A tattie-dulie for fleggin’ craws I’ the neep-fields by the sea.” And some years later, another Scottish poet, J.K. Annand, used fleg in the sense of ‘to scare away’ in his poem Snaw (Selected Poems 1925-1990, published in 1992): “Ach lassie, show some pitie, I’m dowie, and I pyne. Tak me to your hert And fleg the winter hyne.”

Fleg is still in use. In 2021, Gregor Steele featured it in a humorous poem for children: “Betty the Vampire Slagger, Widden stakes they wir nae use, She like tae fleg the undeid, Jist by giein them dug’s abuse.”

Finally, the Courier of December 2022 celebrated local Scottish customs emphatically: “We go guisin’, an’ gi’e fowks a fleg, no a fright”.

Scots Word of the Week is written by Pauline Cairns Speitel. Visit DSL Online at https://dsl.ac.uk.

https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/fleg_v1_n1

24/09/2023

Fa wants tae be the vyce o Spike the Cactus?
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=710863821086230&id=100064878542935&sfnsn=scwspmo

16/09/2023

Gweed news! My Doric Diary is on tour!!

Daisy is desperate to attend the town’s New Year’s Eve party but Granny will not allow it. After an argument, a disgruntled Daisy locks herself in her room amongst her music and old schoolbooks. Things take a time-bending twist when Daisy is magically transported back to December 31st, 1993- the...

15/09/2023

I pit a Doric painter/decorator character ontae the Clock App. She's ca'ed Jessie Fraser and she's fae Pitmedden.
The fandom ess is fae is an American sci fi fantasy een aboot a secret organisation that locks up weird and unco craiturs, a mix o X Files, Men in Black and Warehouse 13.

Check out Melpomene's Mask's video.

12/09/2023

Weel daen the "Staggers", the bourachie o volunteers fa restored the Mormond Hill Stag.

12/09/2023

Ess is fur adults, but if ye like roch humour, Bundy and Wray are the boys!

Mad Friday entertainment!
Tickets are now live click the link below ⤵️

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/717871792857?aff=oddtdtcreator

18/08/2023

Update on the new expanded recipe beuk. Printing quote for 500 copies, spiral bound is aroon £1300 (b/w wi coloured covers), onybody dae a better quote? It is for charity, so we want tae keep the ootlay as low as we can, syne the beuks are nae ower dear.

14/08/2023

Andy Skinner's copy o wir cook beuk made it aa the wye tae the ither side o the wardle!

04/08/2023

OK aa the original beuks are DONE!!
Now takin orders for ma new een, fit will be something bigger and better!
The neist beuk will nae only hae recipes - I'm needin ye tae submit yer ain - it will hae poems and stories o favourite dishes. Syne, if ye hae a story tae gaun wi yer recipe, then sae much the better! And if yer a poet, syne me a poem aboot yer favourite maet!

We need:
Starters; Mains; Meat & Fish; Soups; Baking; Sweets; Smackery (aka sweet treats); Veggie versions o classic recipes wad be welcome an aa.
Poems
Reminiscences of favourite meals and bakers in yer family

Ye can post em on here, or email onything tae [email protected]

I'm gaun tae gie a gweed suppie o the siller tae Willows Animal Sanctuary & Animal Assisted Therapy Unit efter hearin aboot their pony, Cheyenne, fa wis badly injured fan some evil wee vratch wint intae her park and abused her. I canna abide cruelty tae innocent beasties, syne ess beuk will be dedicated tae ess brave cuddy fa is fightin back tae health.

03/08/2023

OK there are TWO RECIPE BOOKS LEFT!!!

I am gaun tae see if the Turriff Heritage folk hae mair and collect them, but it may tak a fylie, cos I canna get time aff durin the wik fan they're open!! Ye can go tae the Old Post Office Museum in Turra and see yersels if they hae, itherwise, am OOT until the next edition!!

Diane Anderson
Caroline Brown

you sent a message but didna reply, are you baith still wanting the books? £4.50 postage - if ye canna dae PayPal I can send ye the business bank details, but maist o aa I need tae ken far tae send them!!

03/08/2023

Noo, I've hid a great idea. If ye want a sequel tae the recipe beuk, those o ye that hae bocht een, send me mair auld farrant recipes that I didna hae. Send ma poems, stories o favourite maet and sweets and I'll stert a crowdfunder tae dee a new een. We micht get it riddy for Yule.
I'll be addin ma Chai Tay Breid as seen ablow.

03/08/2023

We're gaun tae nott a mair muckle boat!

Jist fan ye thocht it wis safe tae ging back in e loch.

Comin seen….

02/08/2023

Can I mak one thing clear? If you are not in the UK, the cookbooks will be much dearer than £4.50. PLEASE ask first fit the postage is for USA, NZ, Australia, afore ye seyn me onything by paypal, cos I need tae pey at least £6.50 for International Standard post.

01/08/2023

Gee whiz! The recipe beuks are gaun like literal het cakes! I hae 14 left - onybody else that wants een, hurry up and get yer order in. I'll nott tae gaun tae Turra and get mair at this rate!!
Thanks affa muckle for yer kind interest. AND I can confirm we hae baith the recipes for SKIRLIE and BUTTERIES!!!

29/07/2023

Finally! The Doric cook beuks are here! If ye want een, dm me - and ye only nott tae pey postage, so £4.50 or thereaboots. Pey by PayPal

30/04/2023

THE RECIPE BEUKS ARE OOT.

Cookbooks available in the museum for a donation to funds.

13/04/2023

A real gweed place tae hae a siree!

Hire rates are very reasonable at £10 per hour or £50 for the day, with all proceeds going to the Bennachie Centre Trust(SCIO). Bring in your own catering or simply purchase hot drinks and snacks from our gift shop. Please get in touch or call in to discuss your requirements.

24/02/2023

Time tae get oot yer pencils an get scrievin!

It’s that time of year again…time to get writing for our Doric prose and poetry competition.

Any questions please message or check our website.

21/02/2023

time I shared some o MY Doric poems - weel I'll get yokit seen!

21/02/2023

A spleet new poetry beuk! If ye want tae get een, contact Jo Gilbert - via her page or Elphinstone Institute

Get yersel alang tae The Lampie inite. We've a crackin line up o readers, music an plinty books for ye tae snap up! See ye there 😁😎 deets in bio

19/02/2023

For a fylie noo, I've been daen poetry recitations on ma TikTok page - syne I'll share them wi ye in the neist fyowe days. We start wi Peter "Oxo" Buchan, fisher bard o Peterheid, a man wi a rare insicht intae the character o the fisherfolk in the North East and ither airts. Ess happens tae be een o ma favourites - "Brotherly Love" and ye'll ken fit wye eence ye gie it a listen!