An A to Z of the Doric: an occasional series. L

Doric, the dialect spoken in the North-East of Scotland is rich in words and phrases associated with the land and the sea. Over the next few weeks I will try to illustrate some of them in an A-Z using examples of their use taken mainly from Buchan Claik, The Saut an the Glaur o't written in 1989 by Peter Buchan and David Toulmin.

LAMES: "Lames were the fragments of broken crockery with which little quines (girls) played, in the days when youngsters had to make their own amusement."

Mrs Talpa can remember playing with her lames. Her children had Lego and her grandchildren have Nintendos and smart phones. What a difference a generation makes!

Zoomify to see that these lucky young quines have a fragment of Roman pot in their collection of lames.