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If I remember correctly when the new managment team steamed into COPE, they immediately made numerous of the adults with special needs redundant, which at that time caused a lot of upset. If it is the case, that they have recieved this grant to enable some of these people to get back to wor k and have not done so, they should hang their heads in shame!

Oh heavens!. I wonder how all our youngsters so far, have managed to go to university and become doctors, lawyers, teachers etc and some of them still speak with a strong dialect. Universities are full of people from all over with many different dialects. They don't all speak the queens English. Like someone said, we can all cannap when we have too, but our dialect is special and different and should be held onto.

When I was at Shetland Home Co today I was only aware of one participant and two staff, the place seemed empty, mind you a lot of staff have just recently left! I then popped over to the Garden and there was 3 staff and 1 participant. Doesn't seem to be much in the way of placements and plenty of staff. Last I heard that there are now 6 working in the main office with no placements - what are they all doing?

Learning the local dialect should be on the curriculum for all schools in the UK as part of educating children about the environment the are being brought up in. But it must not be at the expense of gaining a good academic standard in the modern English language.

Surely da point is dat da whole community wid need tae embrace da dialect tae keep it livin fur future generations. Dir seems to be folk laying da blame squarely wee da schools (no sae much on Shetlink though) but I ken dirs plenty o born and bread Shetland folk who knapp tae dir bairns at home onywye. Den dirs da curious phenomena of folk writing in da Queen's English bit spaekin in dialect (I'm tryin tae write in dialect here but makin an akward backside o it!). Wan really interesting thing is how a lot o Whalsa folk post messages on Social Media - I luff reading it as they write exactly as dey spik and I hae tae read it oot lood in a Whalsa accent fur it tae mak sense!

I fairly agree we da letter an certainly agree we Kevin but I tink dat whit Shetlandforwirds is doin is a good thing an da only wye tae keep da dialect alive atall is tae promote it as best as it can be. Da dialect is dat wattered doon eenoo dat very useable wirds an phrases ir noo lost never mind a lot o actual wirds lik Smirl an Sol Brigda (dat I didna keen an certainly hivna much hed tae use but in seein it here I hiv been educated) so as lang as it is bein promoted atall an encouraged I see nothing wrang .As weel as dat da use o da dictionaries fur a dialect mibee isna da usual use if dat maks sence. In my opinion da Shetland dictionaries ir mair a guide tae da wirds as a spellin kis da wirds differ district tae district fur instance "coll o hay " an "cole o hay" so tae depend on ony dictionary ower muckle whin it comes tae a dialect mibee isna a good idea. I hiv heard dat dey ir a lok o Shetland fok wha moved tae New Zealand in da 40's, 50's an 60's an med dir hom in Mount Manganui in Tauranga an da Shetlanders wha visited in da 80's fan dem still usin a lok o da old Shetland dialect dey left Shetland we an wir usin wirds dat dir ain generation wha wir geen oot tae veesit dem wir forgotten. Da reason dat dey kept it sae weel wis kis whin dey fell in we dir neebirs an idders fae Shetland dey spok awa we it but afore dey managed tae mak a life fur demsells oot dare dey most o been able tae mak demsells understood tae da New Zealanders.