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Dialect and Language.
Dialect and Language There are 12 products.
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Doondie Dialect
Papay words and place names. 'Papay - An island wae wirds in hids belly'. A Papay Community Association Production. Paperback booklet.
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Orcadian Sketch-Book
Being Traits of Old Orkney Life. Written partly in Orkney Dialect. By Walter Traill Dennison. Transcription and translations by Eddie Sinclair and illustrations by Cassie Sinclair. Hardback.
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Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel
Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind. A science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orkney dialect. By...
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The History of Orkney Literature
The first full survey of literary writing from and around the Orkney Islands and charts the development of this distinctively Orcadian strand within Scottish literature and shows how the archipelago, rather than the nation, can indeed be the defining locus of a compact and vibrant literary tradition. Paperback. By Simon W. Hall.
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Orkney and Shetland Weather Words
A comparative dictionary. Glep-de-wadder: a bright piece of rainbow at some distance from the sun. By John W. Scott. Paperback.
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The Orkney Gruffalo's Bairn
The Gruffalo's Bairn translated into Orcadian Scots by Simon W. Hall. Paperback.
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Lamb's Tales: Another Wag
More comic tales in dialect from the pen of Gregor Lamb. Paperback.
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Orcadiana: Pen Portraits of the Past
A collection of more than forty articles by Gregor Lamb, covering language, history, folklore and placenames. Hardback.
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Chrissie's Bodle
Discovering Orkney's forgotten writer Christina M. Costie. By Rgnhild Ljosland.
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New Orkney Antiquarian Journal - Volume 6
A sixth volume of historical and archaeological papers relating to Orkney. Published by Orkney Heritage Society with Orkney Archaeological Trust. Paperback.
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An Orkney Anthology Vol 2: Selected Works...
A compilation of the work of the distinguished Orcadian writer and folklorist, Ernest Walker Marwick. Volume 2 of 2. Hardback.
£ 30.00
