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I'd be willing to produce a coastline map of Orkney, much like the one I'm currently working on for Shetland (see right). From that, I can add stuff that people send to me (coloured in various ways, dots for villages and towns, arrows for population movements etc.). Just let me know what you need, and I'll see what I can do. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 18:14, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
The first version of my Orkney map is on the right. If someone can send me sources or locations, I can produce maps based on this. Stuff this might include could be:
Or anything else anyone would like. If I don't hear from anyone, I'll probably just produce updated versions of the Orkney maps and leave it at that. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 18:02, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
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...however, much of the text is too Doric for an International Encyclopaedia. You know what you mean, I know it, but it's unclear in Plain English - you have to cater for furriners. For those who don't know what Doric is, it's a quasi-dialect reflecting Gaelic constructions carried uncorrected into English - for instance, Scots Gaelic has little sense of ownership, so "my boat" is "the boat that is with me" or something like it. The result is a far more widespread use of the passive tense, which dilutes the direct sense of hard history. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.250.132.218 ( talk) 00:46, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
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I'd be willing to produce a coastline map of Orkney, much like the one I'm currently working on for Shetland (see right). From that, I can add stuff that people send to me (coloured in various ways, dots for villages and towns, arrows for population movements etc.). Just let me know what you need, and I'll see what I can do. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 18:14, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
The first version of my Orkney map is on the right. If someone can send me sources or locations, I can produce maps based on this. Stuff this might include could be:
Or anything else anyone would like. If I don't hear from anyone, I'll probably just produce updated versions of the Orkney maps and leave it at that. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 18:02, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
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...however, much of the text is too Doric for an International Encyclopaedia. You know what you mean, I know it, but it's unclear in Plain English - you have to cater for furriners. For those who don't know what Doric is, it's a quasi-dialect reflecting Gaelic constructions carried uncorrected into English - for instance, Scots Gaelic has little sense of ownership, so "my boat" is "the boat that is with me" or something like it. The result is a far more widespread use of the passive tense, which dilutes the direct sense of hard history. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.250.132.218 ( talk) 00:46, 4 March 2018 (UTC)