Reports, Papers and Articles

The material in this section comes mainly from local sources. But as the Shetland dialect is of interest to many scholars outwith the islands, there are also contributions from much farther afield. We are grateful to all contributors.

In This Section

• 2002 Whit da bairns telt wis
  Sample survey by Mary Blance and Jane Moncrieff. A paper from the2004 Dialect conference.
• 2005 Shetland dialect in primary
  Summary and recommendations of 2005 survey
• 2006 Shetland dialect at pre-school level
  Summary and recommendations of 2006 survey
• Shetlanders speak - Orcadians sing (2003)
  Klaske Van Leyden's study summarised in her New Shetlander article, 2003
• Wir ain aald language (2004)
  Attitudes to the Shetland dialect since the 19th century. A paper by Brian Smith.
• The Study of Norn (2009)
  A lecture paper by Professor Michael Barnes
• Ee wird or twa ( 2010)
  Linda Sutherland reflects on how words can acquire an extra dimension from having 'double meanings', in dialect and in English.