Publisher specialising in Doric (North-East Scots) material. We also do storytelling events and workshops, see the website for details.
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28 Mar 2024
Today is the day! 📚🎈🥳We launch Summer, e Magic Scurry at Tillydrone Library this afternoon (1pm-3pm). Please come by if you can we would love to see all the support from the community on such a wonderful collaboration with P5F Riverbank. 😀😀
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They loons n quines are a richt hanfae. Need een in i back o yer heid fan ther up tae nae guid
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Een o ma een is nae si gweed as the ither een the een inspector telt mi
Today’s #DoricWordoftheDay is “een”. “Een”: 'eyes' or 'one'. Example: “I seen it wi ma ain een, 0 - 1!” (I saw it with my own eyes, 0-1.) 🏴⚽️🏴
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Mi faither lost the sicht in een o his een wi a gramophone spring fan he wis a loon.
Today’s #DoricWordoftheDay is “een”. “Een”: 'eyes' or 'one'. Example: “I seen it wi ma ain een, 0 - 1!” (I saw it with my own eyes, 0-1.) 🏴⚽️🏴
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Today’s #DoricWordoftheDay is “een”. “Een”: 'eyes' or 'one'. Example: “I seen it wi ma ain een, 0 - 1!” (I saw it with my own eyes, 0-1.) 🏴⚽️🏴
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Jun 13
Fit a dird a got fae at yon bliddy pothole noo a hiv ti patch ma bike tyre ina
Jun 13
Today’s #DoricWordoftheDay is “dird”. “Dird”: thud, thump. Example: “He got a richt dird on e heid afore aathin gied blaik.” (He got a right thump on the head before everything went black.)
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Jun 13
RT @d_anderson878: The roads in Dundee is affa dirdie noo - they aye seem ti be howkin them up, bit nivver sort the holes!
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Jun 13
Today’s #DoricWordoftheDay is “dird”. “Dird”: thud, thump. Example: “He got a richt dird on e heid afore aathin gied blaik.” (He got a right thump on the head before everything went black.)
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Jun 12
RT @d_anderson878: Ma mither's ower eichty, but she's as swack as ye like - hakin aboot aa ower the toon ilka day. Jist braa.
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I'm nae as swack as I eesed ti be because o mi bliddy sare back.
Jun 12
Today’s #DoricWordoftheDay is “swack”. “Swack”: nimble, supple. Example: “I’m nae as swack as I eest tae be.” (I’m not as supple as I used to be.)
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Jun 12
Aul Geordies a swack divil he rins up I green efter hes thrown his hindmist boul
Jun 12
Today’s #DoricWordoftheDay is “swack”. “Swack”: nimble, supple. Example: “I’m nae as swack as I eest tae be.” (I’m not as supple as I used to be.)
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Jun 12
Today’s #DoricWordoftheDay is “swack”. “Swack”: nimble, supple. Example: “I’m nae as swack as I eest tae be.” (I’m not as supple as I used to be.)
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Jun 12
RT @d_anderson878: Ma freen forgot we wis meetin, bit her man gied her a hurl, an she wisna late.
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Jun 11
Fin I wis young n heirtie
A hurled in a cairtie
The exle broke
N I fell oot
N skinned a mi elbow
Jun 11
Today’s #DoricWordoftheDay is “hurl”. “Hurl”: to get a lift in a vehicle. Example: “I wis fair trickit tae get a hurl in a real funcy car tither day.” (I was delighted to get a lift in a very fancy car the other day.)
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Jun 11
Today’s #DoricWordoftheDay is “hurl”. “Hurl”: to get a lift in a vehicle. Example: “I wis fair trickit tae get a hurl in a real funcy car tither day.” (I was delighted to get a lift in a very fancy car the other day.)
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Jun 10
The bliddy road wis affa skitey wi ended up in the ditch but got a rug oot fae a lad wee a grey fergie
Jun 10
Today’s #DoricWordoftheDay is “rug”. “Rug”: tug, pull sharply. Example: “Div ye myn yon muckle neep aat e fairmer an aa his faimly hid tae rug an rug tae get oot?” (Do you remember that huge turnip that the farmer and his family had to tug and tug to get it out?)
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Fan I wis a loon I used tae help ma uncle rogue the neeps by ruggin oot a the ranch for 10 bob an ‘oor.
Jun 10
Today’s #DoricWordoftheDay is “rug”. “Rug”: tug, pull sharply. Example: “Div ye myn yon muckle neep aat e fairmer an aa his faimly hid tae rug an rug tae get oot?” (Do you remember that huge turnip that the farmer and his family had to tug and tug to get it out?)
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RT @d_anderson878: Some o the quines his affa scantie skirties- an they're aye haein ti rug them doon.
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Jun 10
Today’s #DoricWordoftheDay is “rug”. “Rug”: tug, pull sharply. Example: “Div ye myn yon muckle neep aat e fairmer an aa his faimly hid tae rug an rug tae get oot?” (Do you remember that huge turnip that the farmer and his family had to tug and tug to get it out?)
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Jun 9
Fit a sotter ma beets are in. A wiz up ti ma qweets in the midden
Jun 9
Today’s #DoricWordoftheDay is “sotter”. “Sotter”: mess. Example: “Fit a sotter e birdie hiv made aneath ma feeders – dinna think thir likin iss mealwirm thingies!” (What a mess the birds have made beneath my feeders – don’t think they are liking the mealworms!)
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Jun 9
Today’s #DoricWordoftheDay is “sotter”. “Sotter”: mess. Example: “Fit a sotter e birdie hiv made aneath ma feeders – dinna think thir likin iss mealwirm thingies!” (What a mess the birds have made beneath my feeders – don’t think they are liking the mealworms!)
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