Use of the Doric is usually (nowadays) confined to folks from the North East of Scotland. Dad actually often referred more to 'the vernacular' in his usage and I'm not over-sure just how much of his writings is actual 'Doric'. However, it can be useful to have somewhere to look up those Scots words he did use which are of course not always understandable to the non-Scot. WORK IN PROGRESS.
There are plenty online dictionaries to chose from. When I didn't know it myself for sure, I used: The Dictionary of the Scots Language
A.
- abune - above
- auld - old
- awa - away
- awfu - awfully
- aye - always
B.
- bools - (bowling) balls
- braw - fine/excellent
C
- coontin - counting
- couthy - agreeable and genial
D.
- dinnae - don't
- doon - down
- efter - after
- een - eyes
F.
- frae - from
- fur - for
G.
- gaun - going
- getherin - gathering
- gin - if/whether
- gled - glad
- guid - good
H.
- hame - home
- herts -hearts
- hoo - how
- hoose - house
I.
L.
- ilka - every
J.
- jeely - jam
- jings - an exclamation
K.
- kent - knew
L.
- leesur - leisure
M.
- maist - most
- maun - may
- micht - might
- moose - mouse
- morn (the) - tomorrow
- muckle - much
N.
- nae - no
- noo - now
O.
- oor - our
- oot - out
- ower - over
P.
- peen(heid) - pin(head)
- piece - sandwich
Q.
R.
- richt - right
- rin - run
S.
- sae - so
- schule - school
- shairly - surely
- sich - such
- sma - small
- staun(in) - stand(ing)
T.
- thocht - thought
- trauchle - walk wearily
U.
- unco - uncanny/strange
V.
W.
- wa - wall
- wi - with
- whaur - where
- whit - what
X.
Y.
- yin - one
- yince - once
- yon - that (pointing)
- yowes - ewes
Z.
