Shetland ForWirds - Promoting and Celebrating the Shetland Dialect (original) (raw)

Come in - wir blyde ta see you!

Explore the Shetland ForWirds website to find:

• Voices from people living in different parts of Shetland;
• John Graham’s Shetland Dictionary, including a history of the dialect;
• Resources for teachers and students of all ages;
• Poetry, and with texts and sound clips;
• Oral history, stories, songs, rhymes and proverbs; a selection of Guddicks (riddles).
• A list of works.

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We are grateful to Jonathan Church, Associate Professor of Anthropology, and colleagues of Arcadia University for their help developing the idea of the website in the early stages.