[BITList] Scots: an auld dug with plenty of bite | Brian Logan| Comment is free | The Guardian

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Mike,

It's "the Doric" - the dialect associated with the Aberdeen area.  When I 
was 3rd on Dilwara, both Jim Duff (2nd) and Beaton Clubb (3rd) could lapse 
into it.  Aberdeen is jocularly referred to as Furry Boots City, the 
inhabitants being thought of as going around asking, of something they have 
lost or misplaced, "Furry boots is it?"  My great aunt Maggie was fond of 
telling me the Aberdonians "cried the laddies loons and cried the lassies 
quines."  She was born and bred in Port Glasgow.   Her use of "cried" for 
"called" is rarely if ever heard nowadays.  In the 70s, my Dad and I visited 
an elderly (95) relation in deepest Ayrshire. She told us, of a lady she 
knew, that she was "criet efter her mither's mither." Which is to say, " 
named for her mither's mither."  Some country areas in Ayrshire are still 
quite broad.

Hugh.