Doric, the popular name for Mid Northern Scots or Northeast Scots, refers to the Scots language as spoken in the northeast of Scotland. There is an extensive body of literature, mostly poetry, ballads, and songs. In some forms of literature it is found as the language of conversation while the work as a whole is in Lallans Scots or British English. A number of 20th and 21st century poets have written poetry in the Doric dialect.