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Place-names, maps, languages dgplacenames.wordpress.com auldnorse.wordpress.com/owersettins/
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This map shows 5,800 Gaelic place-names in Ayrshire and the southern counties of Scotland that survived to be recorded by the Ordnance Survey in the 19th century. 929 of these are from Carrick's nine parishes.
carricknames.scot/conferences-...
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We've now got a News section set up on the Fields of Time site where I'll try to post fairly regular updates:
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net/news/2026-02...
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Fields of Time on Radio Orkney â Fields of Time
https://fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net/news/2026-02-18-radio-orkney/
about 5 hours ago
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Tailte Ăireann
about 15 hours ago
An improved Irish Townland and Historical Map Viewer with new features is available online. Please note: the old URL is no longer functional. Explore the new viewer:
experience.arcgis.com/experience/b...
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iPlayer has the Mrs Merton Show. Germaine Greer and PJ & Duncan on the same show. Incredible stuff
about 8 hours ago
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The ship's long sailed but I still can't get over the fact that we're Team GB and not Team UK
about 9 hours ago
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I'll spare you the pic but it will come as no surprise that Restore Britain's logo qualifies for
#youmissedabit
about 13 hours ago
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Link here
www.facebook.com/share/p/1AbF...
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2 days ago
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Matthew Blake
2 days ago
This is a great project, imagine if all the parishes of Orkney (and elsewhere) did something similar !
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Simon Varwell
3 days ago
I like how Sportscene is now providing Gaelic translations.
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Dr Francis Young
3 days ago
The sacred lime tree of Visdievai (the name means 'all the gods' in Lithuanian) in 1999
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The Register
3 days ago
Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation
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Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation
The subtractive bias we're ignoring opinion Just as the community adopted the term "hallucination" to describe additive errors, we must now codify its far more insidious counterpart: semantic ablation.âŠ
http://dlvr.it/TQzsgr
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Sheena and I will be on Radio Orkney this evening talking about the Fields of Time project
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
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Fields of Time
https://fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net/#home
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The result of a lot of playing about trying to get the best type of centroid for field-name grid references in QGIS: gridSquare(0.01, pole_of_inaccessibility($geometry, 1)) Trying to do it live in the browser was a long trip down a dead end
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Word Family Friday
3 days ago
#WorldHippoDay
đŠđ "hippopotamus", "equestrian", "zebra", and "alfalfa" from Proto-Indo-European *hâéឱwos: "horse"
www.aidanem.com/word-family-...
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Simon
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the paper is Terry Gunnell's Masks and Mumming traditions in the North Atlantic, the reference is on page 292
www.academia.edu/16232771/Mas...
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Masks and Mumming in the Nordic Area (North Atlantic chapter)
Masks and Mumming in the Nordic Area (North Atlantic chapter)
https://www.academia.edu/16232771/Masks_and_Mumming_in_the_Nordic_Area_North_Atlantic_chapter_
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Simon
4 days ago
One of the things that inspired this current Malky Dungeon story was reading about possible guising rituals in Orkney that appeared to have stopped due to WWI, the thought of war ending not just people's lives but entire generations of traditions and culture as well felt very poignant.
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The museum of unconditional surrender
4 days ago
1940 Irish language scif-fi book Manannån by Måiréad Nà Ghråda It is the first Mecha Robot outside of Japan and mention of a Gravity assist in fiction. It was never republished or translated.
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Edgar Wright
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This works for me:
www.academia.edu/107875464/Th...
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The Many Virtues of The Strange Type EΔ
The pattern which Eduard Sievers defined as âEΔâ is the only line-type in drĂłttkvĂŠtt to have a trisyllabic word in the final metrical positions 4-6, thus deviating from the otherwise ubiquitous disyll...
https://www.academia.edu/107875464/The_Many_Virtues_of_The_Strange_Type_EΔ
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin
5 days ago
Damn, âwe should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehendâ has some serious hands
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Can anyone see how to access this?
ledijournals.com/ojs/index.ph...
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The many virtues of the strange Type EΔ. Metre, Semantics and intertextuality in dróttkvÊtt | Filologia Germanica
https://ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/filologiagermanica/article/view/2430
5 days ago
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Robins are red, Dunnocks are blue; Word meanings change, Colour terms too.
about 1 year ago
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Tell it not in Ruthwell - publish it not in the streets of Kirkcudbright Thomas Carlyle's take on 2 Samuel 1:20
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Why's Billy Connolly the Big Yin? I've only heard 'wan' in Glasgow (and switched to it from my Galloway 'yin' while I was there). Did Glaswegians used to say 'yin'?
5 days ago
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Judith Jesch
6 days ago
Free entry in February! Very much recommended if you're there.
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Kath Page
6 days ago
#FindsFriday
The Cairns Character! Discovered in a pit at the
#IronAge
#Broch
site of The Cairns on the island of South Ronaldsay,
#Orkney
. He or She was carved from a beach pebble around 2,000 years ago. đž mine
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illandancient.bsky.social
6 days ago
Over the past six years I've been pulling together a corpus of 21st century Scots writing, three and a half million words from over 600 modern Scots writers. Among this 3.5 million words are about 140,000 distinct unique words spellings, and not one writer used the word "hurkle-durkle".
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I enjoyed this
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6 days ago
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Kirkwall's 30 February gravestone
6 days ago
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Blessed by the algorithm
youtu.be/EWO1-WE4oNw
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Get Lucky by Daft Punk on a mechanical organ
YouTube video by The Mechanical Music Man
https://youtu.be/EWO1-WE4oNw?si=XtMEE4u-VuwAocIS
7 days ago
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Avery Edison
8 days ago
sigh
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CĂ ite bheil Sealtainn?
#youmissedabit
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8 days ago
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An interesting wee cluster of Crimean War field-names from South Ronaldsay
8 days ago
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Kenny Brophy
8 days ago
Today I finally managed to view a VHS tape documenting the Isbister / Tomb of the Eagles excavations and concrete cover house construction in 1997-88. Quite an eye opener in terms of reconstructing the site! Thanks to staff at HES for making it happen!
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Preeti Chhibber
9 days ago
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for
gradient.horse
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gradient.horse
Draw a horse, watch it run!
https://gradient.horse/
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9 days ago
....and here we have another Routin Linn with a Brig (bridge.)
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Wigtown Poetry Prize taking a zero tolerance approach to AI
www.wigtownpoetryprize.com/poetry-compe...
9 days ago
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Edgar Wright
9 days ago
Matrix theory James Joseph Sylvester introduced the term matrix in 1850, using the Latin sense of âwombâ or âsourceâ to describe an array that gives birth to determinants.
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Matrix = 'womb' is new to me
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Orcadian in the linguistic landscape: Tattie Salad
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MOE in the 1611 KJV gets updated to MORE. Scots also makes a distinction between MAE 'more in number' and MAIR 'bigger, greater, etc'. It's not an active part of my dialect but it's used in Trotter's 1901 Galloway Gossip
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Corinna
14 days ago
Interesting project about house names by Ragnhild Ljosland being discussed on Around
#Orkney
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www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Around Orkney - 05/02/2026 - BBC Sounds
News, features and weather for Orkney, including the daily community diary.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002rfxc?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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Dig It!
14 days ago
North Ronaldsay's sheep are renowned for their unusual diet of seaweedâbut their eating habits aren't a new phenomenon đ By analysing over 100 Neolithic sheep teeth, archaeologists have shown that sheep in Orkney were grazing on seaweed over 4,500 years ago:
www.digitscotland.com/the-archaeol...
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Pleased to discover that Lilly Wood & The Prick sound great live
youtu.be/pvTa-2s54C8
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Lilly Wood & The Prick - Prayer In C - Live Main Square Festival
YouTube video by Séquence
https://youtu.be/pvTa-2s54C8?si=3Y9iR0dY-lKWhJdJ
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Richard Morris
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'Kirkwall Fair.' (1888) Although Arthur Melville was not regarded as one of the Glasgow Boys, he was seen by them to be a kindred spirit. A year after painting this work on Orkney, he left Edinburgh and settled in London, although he often returned to Scotland to paint.
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Association for Scottish Literature
17 days ago
Today, 2 February, is Candlemas. As well as being a Christian holy day, it is one of the four Scottish Quarter Days, when rents were due. The Scots
#poem
âAt Candlemasâ by Marion Angus (1865â1946) is a typically unsentimental look at how swiftly youth turns to old age:
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I'd not thought of the etymology of grizzled before. Nice to see it's one of those Germanic-via-French words
18 days ago
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anamuk
18 days ago
Äu mi aÄetis terpomojn nur pro la nomo? Certe JES, ili estas Skywalker.
#terpomoj
#starwars
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Simon
18 days ago
ever since I first heard about it I found the Dwarfie Stane on Hoy really evocative so couldn't resist putting it in my comic
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"And Iacob sod pottage", Genesis 25:29 Sod's the past tense of seethe 'to boil, cook'. It's hidden in plain sight in sodden
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Ceryl
21 days ago
Dorothée Pullinger AngloFrench
#automotive
#engineer
awarded MBE aged 26 for
#WWI
work. Early member of
@wes1919.bsky.social
she
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the
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car, designed for women & built by a female workforce for Arrol-Johnstons in
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doroth%...
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