I wish someone would knock on the head once and for all this nonsense about so-called Doric being one of the languages of Scotland. People in Aberdeenshire speak their local varieties of Scots just as other Scots all over lowland Scotland do.
I grew up in the East Neuk of Fife hearing and using words and expressions that I have never come across elsewhere. Nevertheless, it was still Scots. The Fifers, being modest folk, would not claim to speak "Fifian".
HARRY D WATSON
Braehead Grove
Edinburgh