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At lang an last I've got navbars working on my Place-Names of Dumfriesshire (1935) site: dgplacenames.github.io/pnd1935/

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No fooling! If you're in #Kirkwall on 1st April, come along to our reading of #poetry composed in and inspired by #Orkney and #Shetland. 7.30 pm in the St Magnus Centre, and free. A @ragnasislands.bsky.social event.

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There's a real lexical uncanny valley to this, and I mean that in a good way youtube.com/shorts/1Xhue...

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TONIGHT at 7.30 Dr. Aonghas MacCoinnich Evidence for Gaelic in Carrick and how it died out Join Zoom Meeting us06web.zoom.us/j/8267425106.... Meeting ID: 826 7425 1068 Passcode: 559389

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A blog post from back in 2023. Don't know where the time goes. However, we're working on plans to classify the Blaeu place-names in Carrick (and hopefully beyond) so we can do some more number crunching. dgplacenames.wordpress.com/2023/08/05/b...

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I've added the Introduction and Abbreviations to The Place-Names of Dumfriesshire. Just the Index to go: dgplacenames.github.io/pnd1935/

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Formatting tables takes a looooong time

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Back when Newtown Stewart Cinema was showing NAE TIME TAE DEEE.

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This is a really good read

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@whgazetteer.org is a linked open data approach to place names

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Imagine what a video on linked open data by the Fitzwilliam Museum would be like. See if you're right: youtu.be/0m79yDb4AzE?...

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"Frizzles Linn. Frizle, a hissing, spluttering sound (SDD). O.E. hlynn, a torrent, waterfall, pool." I think a more likely definition is Frizzle, a Scots form of the surname Fraser. archive.org/details/pnd1...

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LEAD 'to carry peats home from a moss for fuel' “It is related of W. Thomson, minister in 1691, that he began his sermon by saying he had dreamed he had met the devil, who told him he was going to Tundergarth sacrament. “An what are you gaun to do there?” >>>

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I've uploaded Edward Johnson-Ferguson's The Place-Names of Dumfriesshire (1935): archive.org/details/pnd1.... archive.org's OCR is ok but far from perfect. I'm running my own OCR which I'll put up here: github.com/dgplacenames.... If you'd be interested in helping to proofread the text, let me know

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Going full Partridge and watching Bond from the beginning

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Onto my umpteenth, and hopefully final, attempt to upload The Place-Names of Dumfriesshire to archive.org.

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Robins are red, Dunnocks are blue; Word meanings change, Colour terms too.

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Lover's Bower, Rerrick Lovers Plantation, Ruthwell Lovers Walk, Wigtown Lovers Walk, Tinwald maps.nls.uk/view/74427671 maps.nls.uk/view/74426692 maps.nls.uk/view/74431139 maps.nls.uk/view/74426680

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Almost finished scanning The Place-Names of Dumfriesshire (1935). Slowed down considerably by HP Smart closing erratically.

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The voice search on our Firestick recognises my wife's KIT vowel as KIT but hears mine as DRESS, even when I try my best

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Cf Scots ARSET 'backwards' dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/ar...

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Bravo to whoever's responsible for the Kurt Vonnegut pun in this week's Orcadian

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Making the most of the longer nights and above freezing temperature

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