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Doric, the dialect spoken in the North-East of Scotland is rich in words and phrases associated with the land and the sea. 


TRACKIE: A teapot.

"The tae wiz nearly aye rickit an files it wiz bile't, and the trackie got affa brookie sittin sae lang on the bink." (The tea tasted of smoke and sometimes it was boiled and the teapot was black with soot being so long at the fire). 
From Buchan Claik, The Saut an the Glaur o't written in 1989 by Peter Buchan and David Toulmin.