Teach Yourself Doric

Douglas Kynoch (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2025
Luath Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-912147-69-4 (ISBN)

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Though written in the style of foreign language book, Teach Yourself Doric is intended as a work of entertainment, designed to amuse those already familiar with the speech patterns of North-east Doric. Containing study texts and questions for “students” to answer, it is, in fact, a spoof language book. That most readers got the joke was clear from the fact that the book very quickly became a Scottish best-seller; this, despite the efforts of two critics who reviewed it as a teaching manual and a Glasgow bookshop which displayed it in the foreign language section.

Douglas Kynoch was born and brought up in Aberdeen, where he attended the Grammar School and Aberdeen University. After a year in Germany, he returned to his native city at the time when Grampian TV was about to open and was appointed one of their first announcer-presenters. After six years with the company, he moved to the BBC in Glasgow, becoming the Glasgow presenter of Reporting Scotland and the Mr Scotland of the Nationwide programme. After a Christian conversion, he left the BBC to join a Christian radio station. The following year, he returned to Queen Margaret Drive as one of the presenters of Good Morning Scotland, continuing to work in radio till his writing career began in the 1990s. His first book, Teach Yourself Doric, became an immediate best-seller.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.09.2021
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	10 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire
ISBN-10	1-912147-69-6 / 1912147696
ISBN-13	978-1-912147-69-4 / 9781912147694
Zustand	Neuware