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Actions Displays	The Orkney Norn Remove from selection Add to selection TitleThe Orkney Norn Author Kirkwall Marwick; Dr; Hugh (1881-1965); Teacher (Author)‎ Place of publicationOxford / Kirkwall PublisherOxford University Press / Herald Printshop Year of publication1929 / 2016 MaterialBook The pages and dust cover of this book were printed in 1929 at the same time as those used for the first edition of 'The Orkney Norn' by Hugh Marwick. The flat sheets were kept in the store of George Leonard & Co. and quietly forgotten for over eighty years. Donated by the Leonard family, with profits from their sale to go to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, all the sheets were cut, collated and bound, producing 150 copies of this book. November 2016 A dictionary of the dialect words spoken in Orkney, with historical and grammatical notes.

TitleThe Orkney Norn

Author

Place of publicationOxford / Kirkwall

Year of publication1929 / 2016

MaterialBook

The pages and dust cover of this book were printed in 1929 at the same time as those used for the first edition of 'The Orkney Norn' by Hugh Marwick. The flat sheets were kept in the store of George Leonard & Co. and quietly forgotten for over eighty years. Donated by the Leonard family, with profits from their sale to go to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, all the sheets were cut, collated and bound, producing 150 copies of this book. November 2016

A dictionary of the dialect words spoken in Orkney, with historical and grammatical notes.