Buchan Words an' Ways

Sandy Fenton was reared in North-East Scotland, first parish of Dumblane, where he started school, and then in Auchterless. It was an entirely rural upbringing. Though he was interested in the stone circles, "Picts houses", hill forts and great buildings of earlier times, his major fascination was with the way folk worked and the way they spoke. The speech of the North-East is one of the best preserved in Scotland, and still flexible enough to adapt to modern times. New ways of looking at the world come in, and words of earlier days, sayings and ways of speaking, inevitably fall by the wayside. If we can keep a record of what is passing, we will still be able to sense the flavour and atmosphere of the days of our fathers and grandfathers. It is the aim of this book to for just that. It is a blend of English and the Buchan dialect, and it contains a very full word list.