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

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.

OO: Wool.

"Foo's yer fobbit yowe?" (How is your ewe that was overcome by heat and breathing hard after becoming exhausted?) An unlikely event after shearing.

The stone spinning whorl was found in our garden. The local archaeologist was able to date it, without hesitation, to somewhere between 3000 BC and 2000 AD. Some things, it would appear, never change.