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

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.

INTIMMERS: the inward parts of anything, including the human body.

"I'd leave well enough alone if I was you, Dod. There's likely tae be hell tae pay for fanklin wi the intimmers." (I wouldn't touch it I was you George. There is likely to be big trouble if you mess about with the mechanism.)