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

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.

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SAPPY DUBS: Really wet mud, beloved by bairns everywhere.

"Yon place is jist a sotter o dubs." (That place is just a mess of mud.)

SHARN: Cow dung.

When dubs and sharn come together, as they inevitably do, the result is sharny dubs, or dubby sharn, depending upon the relative proportions of the two.

The true glory of the dubs is best seen zoomified.