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

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.

AA: All, everything, completely.

'The sea's aa watter, but it's nae aa fish!" (The sea is all water but it isn't all fish!)

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