Thanks for the article link! I went to school in Aberdeen and there was one particular coffee shop I loved to go to because the two ladies who worked there would converse loudly in Doric and I could eavesdrop and try to figure out what they were saying. I think a lot of folks here aren't aware of teh difference between Doric and the Lowland Scots dialects (though several of my linguistics professors disputed that they were actually not mutually intelligible with English and therefore could be classed as seperate languges). Anyway, it's always nice to have a native dialect-speaker to set 'em straight.

Diane