A Doric A-Z: H revisited

Doric, the dialect spoken in the North-East of Scotland is rich in words and phrases associated with the land and the sea. I so much enjoyed my recent journey through the Doric dictionary that I plan to revisit it on an irregular and random basis. As before, the examples are taken mainly from Buchan Claik, The Saut an the Glaur o't written in 1989 by Peter Buchan and David Toulmin.


HAIRST: The Harvest


"The hairst's nothing nooadays wit they big combines an balers dressing off the straw aa were the parts like rolls o toilet paper." (The harvest is nothing nowadays with those big combines and balers defaecating the straw all over the fields like rolls of toilet paper.)