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  1. Mike Pennington

    Birding parlance

    Yes, I was going to include this. I think this etymology was suggested by Jakobsen who was a brilliant philologist, but not a birder. If you were naming Great Skua, would you call it dumpy? It's certainly not the first thing that strikes me and several native Shetlanders think along the same...
  2. Mike Pennington

    Birding parlance

    All three are Shetland names NOT Gaelic. Shetland dialect derives from a maixture of Old English, Old Scots and Norn, a form of Norwegian (no Gaelic at all). Tystie is almost the same as thebirds name in all other Scandinavian countries. Erne is also Scandic I think. Bonxie though is of...
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