Recent Developments
In 2006 an Aberdeen hotel decided to use a Doric voice for their lift. Phrases said by the lift include "Gyaun Up" ɡʲɑːn ʌp (Going up), "Gyaun Doun" ɡʲɑːn dun (Going down), "atween fleers een an fower" əˈtwin fliːrz in ən ˈfʌur (between floors one and four).
Also in 2006, Maureen Watt of the SNP took her Scottish Parliamentary oath in Doric. She said "I want to advance the cause of Doric and show there's a strong and important culture in the North East." She was required to take an oath in English beforehand. There was some debate as to whether the oath was "gweed Doric" ɡwid ˈdoːrɪk or not, and notably it is, to a certain extent, written phonetically and contains certain anglicised forms such as "I" rather than "A", and "and" instead of "an":
- "I depone aat I wull be leal and bear ae full alleadgance tae her majesty Queen Elizabeth her airs an ony fa come aifter her anent the law. Sae help me God."
In Disney/Pixar's Brave, the character Young MacGuffin speaks the Doric dialect. This was a choice by the voice actor, Kevin McKidd, a native of Elgin.
Read more about this topic: Doric Dialect (Scotland)
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