Foula, Shetland Islands, where I am from (b. 1993)
My ancestors have lived on Foula since at least the 13th century
I am descended from the last speakers of Foula Norn (d. 1913)
Shetland Norn
a 632,082 word corpus across 335 datasets
The 335 Norn datasets are constructed around all occurences of each of the following 335 words
air, all, allure, angry, animal, arm, around, awake, bad, bake, bank, barley, bay, beach, beast, bed, begin, belly, belong, bend, bird, birth, blow, boat, body, bog, bottom, boy, bread, breath, breeze, bright, build, burn, butter, button, cake, call, catch, cause, chicken, child, clean, cliff, clothes, cloud, cloven, coal(fish), coast, cod, cold, corn, could, cow, crab, crash, creature, crow, crowd, crown, current, cut, dale, damp, dance, dash, day, dead, dew, dirt, dishevel, dog, dough, drift, drink, drizzle, dry, dyke, eagle, east, eat, eddy, eel, egg, end, ewe-yowe, eye, face, fall, fasten, fat, feel, fence, festival, find, finger, fish, fishermen, fishing, flag, flesh, flock, flood, floor, fly, food, foot, Foula, frost, fry, full, gale, girl, gone, good, grain, grass, gravel, grind, ground, grow, gull, gust, hair, hand, hard, hardly, harvest, hay, head, health, hear, heart, hearth, heather, hen, here, herring, hide, hill, hole, home, hoof, hook, hop, hope, horizon, horse, hot, house, hungry, husband, insect, island, jaw, jelly, jump, kirk, kiss, knee, knit, lake, lamb, land, laugh, left, leg, length, line, lip, liv*, living, loch, long, look, love, luck, maggot, magic, man, mass, material, measure, meat, milk, mill, mist, moon, moss, mould, mouse, mouth, mud, musty, neck, need, new, night, north, nothing, oar, oat, ocean, old, over, pain, part, particle, partition, patch, path, peat, person-people, pig, place, plant, play, plump, pole, poor, pray, put, rain, ram, ridge, right, rise, road, roast-soup, rock, root, rough, round, row, run, rustle, sea, seal, seat, see, seed, shag, shallow, sheep, shell, shore, short, should, shoulder, sick, sigh-t, sight, sit, skin, sleep, sleet, slug, smell, smoke, sneak, snow, soft, somebody, song, sore, south, speak, spin, spit, spot, spotted, spring, star, start, step, stomach, stone, stop, storm, story, stream, strong, summer, sun, surface, swallow, swamp, swarm, tale, tall, taste, teeth, thin, thing, think-thought, throat, tide, time, tongue, top, touch, tree, troll, up, valley, vermin, voe, walk, wall, wan, want, wash, wave, weak, weather, well, west, wet, when, whistle, whole, wife, wind, winter, wish, witch, without, woman, wood, wool, work, worm, would, year, young
The Old Statistical Accounts
a 485,683 word corpus across 136 datasets
The 136 OSA datasets are constructed around all occurences of each of the following 136 words
aberdeen, acre, animal, bank, birth, body, boy, bridge, build, by, cattle, child, church-kirk, civil, class, collect, college-university, common, corn, country, cow, crop, crown-queen-king, day, death, distance-length, duke, during, east, edinburgh, england, establish, export, farm, fell, females-males, fish, for, girl, glasgow, good, grain, great, grow, harbour-bay, he, health, her, herd-flock-ewe-ram-lamb, heritors, hill, his, horses, house-home, idle, import, importance, industry, inform, it, labour, lady, land, law-legal, learn, less, london, lord, lower, man-men, manure, meal, mile, milk-butter, mode, money, month, moral, north, number, oat, of, old, or, parish, pasture, peat, people, person, philosophy, place, poor, potatoes, pounds, price, produc, professor, profit, property, rent, river, school, scotland, sea, season, she, sheep, shetland, sir, soul, south, student, summer, tax, teach, tenant, their, them, they, time, to, trade, turnip, use, virtue, wall-fence, weather, week, west, wet, winter, woman-women, wool, work, year, young
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