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

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.

NOWT: Cattle

"There wis a great hantle o' nowt at the mart the day". (There was a very considerable number of cattle at the market today.)