Author : John J. Graham
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,39 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
This revised edition of The Shetland Dictionary is designed to aid readers in understanding and expanding their knowledge of Shetland. It includes over 150 additional words and is intended as a consistent source of reference.
Author : Alastair Christie-Johnston
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Scots language
ISBN : 9781904746584
An easy-to-use and informative compendium of Shetland words, this dictionary provides a useful starting point for those interested in the origin of Shetland words.
Author : Peter Sundkvist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1000214842
The traditional dialect spoken in the Shetland Isles, the northernmost part of Scotland and Britain, is highly distinct. It displays distinct, characteristic features on all linguistic levels and particularly in its sound system, or its phonology. The dialect is one of the lesser- known varieties of English within the Inner Circle. Increasing interest in the lesser- known varieties of English in recent years has brought a realization that there are still blanks on the map, even within the very core of the Inner Circle. Sundkvist’s comprehensive treatise draws upon results from a three- year research project funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, for which a phonological survey of the Shetland dialect was carried out between 2010 and 2012. This book is a useful resource for those working on historical linguistics and is intended to serve as a comprehensive description and accessible reference source on one of the most distinct lesser- known varieties of English within Britain. It documents and offers a systematic account of the rich regional variation as well as being a reference source for those studying the historical formation and emergence of the Shetland dialect and language variation and change in Shetland, as well as those within the broader field of Germanic linguistics.
Author : Jakob Jakobsen
Publisher :
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 1928
Category : DICTIONARIES. Norn
ISBN :
Author : James Stout Angus
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 1914
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Robert McColl Millar
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 2007-01-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0748629963
The Scots dialects of northern Scotland, Orkney and Shetland are among the most traditional varieties of 'English', exhibiting features not current elsewhere for centuries. Until recently, they were spoken in communities whose traditional occupations have encouraged the equation of speech with local identity. They have all also been affected by contact with Gaelic, or Norse, or both. In recent years, however, the decline of traditional industries has been matched by the discovery of oil off their coasts, encouraging in-migration of speakers of many varieties of English and other languages. How well have these varieties maintained their traditional natures at the start of the 21st century?
Author : James John Haldane Burgess
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Tales
ISBN :
Author : Michael Phillips
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1441230580
Michael Phillips Continues His Sweeping Shetland Islands Saga When Loni Ford is informed that she has inherited property in the Shetland Islands, she laughs. She wants nothing more than to sell it and be done with it. But when she arrives in the North Sea enclave, she is stunned to find that "the Cottage" is not at all what she expected, nor is David Tulloch, the man most of the islanders believe to be the rightful heir. The locals could hardly be more surprised that the heir is a woman--and an American. Loni, in turn, finds the islanders quaint and a bit behind the times. Expecting David to be as provincial as the rest of his clan, she discovers that there is far more to the man than meets the eye. And there is something about the peaceful atmosphere of the place--and the character of its most prominent citizen--that soon gets under her skin. Beneath the peaceful surface, however, change is threatening the island of Whales Reef. David's cousin Hardy Tulloch, whose claim to the inheritance now in Loni's hands was backed by oil investors, has not been deterred in his aim to control the island. But his co-conspirators have plans of their own, plans that put Loni's very life in danger.
Author : T. A. Robertson
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
A grammar which provides a comprehensive introduction to the grammar and usage of the Shetland dialect.
Author : Roseanne Watt
Publisher : Polygon
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,72 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Shetland (Scotland)
ISBN : 9781846974878
Winner of an Eric Gregory Award, 2020 Winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, 2020 'The old Shetland fishermen still speak with something like reverence of the forgotten art of steering by the moder dy (mother wave), the name given to an underswell which it is said always travels in the direction of home' Written in English, interspersed with Shetlandic dialect throughout, this eagerly awaited debut collection from Shetland poet Roseanne Watt contains profound, assured and wilfully spare poems that are built from the sight, sound and heartbeat of the land as much as from the sea. In rigorously controlled, concise, and vivid language Watt offers glimpses of the landscape alongside which we find the most complex and mysterious of human experiences.
