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From: Gavin Bell <>
Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Loons and Quines
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:27:00 +0000
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Les Horn wrote:

>Hi all
>
>The dialect of North East Scotland is Doric. Have a look at this Wikipedia article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doric_dialect_%28Scotland%29
>
>

... although as the article makes clear, the term "Doric" originated as
an insult! I prefer to talk of "Northeast Scots".


Gavin Bell

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