ex-isle Posted July 1, 2007 Report Share Posted July 1, 2007 ... and all residents/natives. Can this be true?How many do you recognise?How many have you read?And who's missing?http://shetlopedia.com/Category:Shetland_Authors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DePooperit Posted July 1, 2007 Report Share Posted July 1, 2007 Is it common nowadays to list things under first names? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted July 1, 2007 Report Share Posted July 1, 2007 I suppose it's a bit like the way that the internet has promoted the use of lower case letters in the start of words/names which should have upper case.In this instance, use of first names first, stems from the way the pages on Shetlopedia are set up.I have already thought about it and was considering adding a category listing in alphabetical order by surname. Just haven't got around to it yet. I've been too busy reading the information which Ex-Isle has provided. I may be wrong, but, it's looking like the most comprehensive listing of Shetland authors, to date, on the web.Well done Ex-Isle Cheers,RobbieShetlopedia.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex-isle Posted July 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2007 Is it common nowadays to list things under first names? It's the Icelandic phonebook principle - you just can't trust surnames Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandhopper Posted July 1, 2007 Report Share Posted July 1, 2007 Is it common nowadays to list things under first names? For a few moments I had similar thoughts when I saw the list ... and well, it is probably not common and might be unsuitable for the Encyclopaedia Britannica or the Wikipedia. ... but it isn't the Britannica, it is Shetlopedia, something about "what's happening in your neighbourhood" and the 100+ are or might have been neighbours ... The way I understood the idea of Shetlopedia is that it is first of all something "from Shetlanders for Shetlanders" and with regard to some particular items something "from Shetlanders and None-Shetlanders for Shetlanders and others interested in Shetland". And when you are looking from abroad - as I do - or in case you are not half way familiar with the Shetland cosmographia it is totally out of interest whether you look for "Haldane Burgess" or "Burgess, Haldane" when you have now idea about the work linked with the name ... but I am - personally spoken - quite happy to find the folks I have met under their proper name like "Lise Sinclair" and not bureaucratically refered to as "Sinclair (stop) Lise" ... or "Wills, Jonathan, Dr" ... The same is with the "principle" of locally known names, spellings, akas etc first. "Vagaland" I know ... thinking a bit about his proper name I wood end up with "Robertson", using the search box for "Robertson" someone might have some probs to find the right "Robertson, XWY". Within a different context we discussed the problem of Shetland "identity". Putting all and everything to global standards is somehow giving up identity whether it regards to Shetland or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lola Boomboom Posted July 1, 2007 Report Share Posted July 1, 2007 Missing author... Unst poet Mackenzie Cash (Peter Mackenzie Ritch) for more info contact gianpaolodante@hotmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DePooperit Posted July 2, 2007 Report Share Posted July 2, 2007 J.W. Leask seems to be missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medziotojas Posted July 2, 2007 Report Share Posted July 2, 2007 Have read at one time or another: Bobby TullochDr Jonathon WillsFrank WaltersonJames W. IrvineJoseph GrayRhoda BulterSmirkVagaland ...and most of the journalists and poets who submit regular articles to Shetland publications. Couple more missing: George Leith - A Lerwick Lifeboatman's Story Wendy Gear - John Walker's Shetland (C'mon Peter, whaur is du?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
da Trookir Posted July 3, 2007 Report Share Posted July 3, 2007 Whaar is Mortimer Manson? Or Thomas Manson? An whit's MacDiarmid doin dere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted July 3, 2007 Report Share Posted July 3, 2007 Whaar is Mortimer Manson? Or Thomas Manson? An whit's MacDiarmid doin dere? He spent 9 years on Whalsay, which inspired some of his poems see http://shetlopedia.com/Hugh_MacDiarmid for more details Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
da Trookir Posted July 3, 2007 Report Share Posted July 3, 2007 Whaar is Mortimer Manson? Or Thomas Manson? An whit's MacDiarmid doin dere? He spent 9 years on Whalsay, which inspired some of his poems see http://shetlopedia.com/Hugh_MacDiarmid for more details I read dat. Aald burger hed naethin good ta say aboot Shetland, though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted July 3, 2007 Report Share Posted July 3, 2007 Whaar is Mortimer Manson? Or Thomas Manson? An whit's MacDiarmid doin dere? He spent 9 years on Whalsay, which inspired some of his poems see http://shetlopedia.com/Hugh_MacDiarmid for more details Weel said Joannie Dir's aye een dat canna budder ta read da first line o da article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted July 3, 2007 Report Share Posted July 3, 2007 I read dat. Aald burger hed naethin good ta say aboot Shetland, thoughHalf da folk on here hae little guid ta sae aboot da Isle... Whit's new Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
da Trookir Posted July 3, 2007 Report Share Posted July 3, 2007 I read dat. Aald burger hed naethin good ta say aboot Shetland, thoughHalf da folk on here hae little guid ta sae aboot da Isle... Whit's new Ya, laeklie dat ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex-isle Posted July 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2007 Whaar is Mortimer Manson? Or Thomas Manson? An whit's MacDiarmid doin dere? He spent 9 years on Whalsay, which inspired some of his poems see http://shetlopedia.com/Hugh_MacDiarmid for more details I read dat. Aald burger hed naethin good ta say aboot Shetland, though Decision was to include anybody who'd spent a substantial period of time living in Shetland. And not to pass judgement ... Btw, does anybody know anything about this crime writer who is supposed to have lived on da Fair Isle: www.anncleeves.com/shetland.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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