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Reference Works
Dictionaries
- The Shetland Dictionary, (1979, third edition revised 2009) John J. Graham, The Shetland Times Ltd., £9.99 Also available on this website
- Shetland Words: a dictionary of the Shetland dialect, (2010) Alastair and Adaline Christie-Johnston, with Neil Anderson as contributing editor, The Shetland Times Ltd, £20 (hardback) and £16 (paperback)
- Shetlopedia has an online Shetland dictionary which anybody can edit and add to: shetlanddictionary.com
- Concise Scots Dictionary, (1985, now being revised), editor-in-chief Mairi Robinson, £30.00 (hardback), £14.99 (paperback)
- Etymological Dictionary of the Norn language in Shetland, Jakob Jakobsen, (1928, re-published by Shetland Folk Society, 1985) Available in Shetland Archives and Shetland Library.
- Dictionary of the Scottish Tongue and The Scottish National Dictionary: both available online at Dictionary of the Scots Language
- A Glossary of the Shetland Dialect (1914), James Stout Angus, available online at the Internet Archive
- Thomas Edmondston's Etymological glossary of the Shetland & Orkney dialect:
with some derivations of names of places in Shetland (1866) available online at the Internet Archive
Grammar
- Grammar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect, (1952, reprinted 1991), T.A. Robertson and John J. Graham, The Shetland Times Ltd, £6.95
- Brief Grammar notes in introduction to John Graham’s Shetland Dictionary
Spelling and Pronunciation
History
- Historical notes in introduction to John Graham's Shetland Dictionary
Norn
- The Norn language of Orkney and Shetland (1998), Michael P. Barnes, The Shetland Times Ltd, £9.95
- Michael Barnes' 2009 lecture paper, 'The study of Norn', available here.
Place names
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