 doric, the popular name for mid northern scots robert mccoll millar (2007) northern and insular scots edinburgh university press. p. 3 or northeast scots,ana deumert & wim vandenbussche (2003) germanic standardizations: past to present. john benjamins. p. 385 refers to the dialects of scots spoken in the northeast of scotland. there is an extensive body of literature, mostly poetry, ballads, and songs. ==nomenclature== the term "doric" was formerly used to refer to all dialects of lowland scots, but during the twentieth century it became increasingly associated with mid northern scots.mccoll millar. 2007. northern and insular scots. edinburgh: university press ltd. p. 116 the name possibly originated as a jocular reference to the doric dialect of the ancient greek language. greek dorians lived in sparta, a more rural area, and were alleged by the ancient greeks to have spoken laconically and in a language thought harsher in tone and more phonetically conservative than the attic spoken in athens. doric greek was used for some of the verses spoken by the chorus in greek tragedy. according to the oxford companion to english literature: :"since the dorians were regarded as uncivilised by the athenians, 'doric' came to mean 'rustic' in english, and was applied particularly to the language of northumbria and the lowlands of scotland and also to the simplest of the three orders in architecture."drabble, margaret (ed.) the oxford companion to english literature (fifth edition, 1985) use of the term doric in this context may also arise out of a contrast with the anglicised speech of the scottish capital, because at one point, edinburgh was nicknamed 'athens of the north'. the upper/middle class speech of edinburgh would thus be 'attic', making the rural areas' speech 'doric'. according to another source, 18th century scots writers like allan ramsay justified their use of scots (instead of english) by comparing it to the use of ancient greek doric by theocritus. ==phonology== most consonants are usually pronounced much as in other modern scots dialects but: *in buchan the cluster cht, also ght, may be realised  in a few words, rather than  as in other dialects, for example: dochter (daughter), micht (might) and nocht (nought), often written dother, mith and noth in dialect writing. * the clusters gn and kn are realised {{ipa|/É¡n
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