dgplacenames (now in Orkney)
@dgplacenames.bsky.social
Place-names, maps, languages. dgplacenames.wordpress.com
auldnorse.wordpress.com/owersettins/
auldnorse.wordpress.com/owersettins/
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This map shows 5,800 Gaelic place-names in Ayrshire and the southern counties of Scotland that survived to be recorded by the Ordnance Survey in the 19th century. 929 of these are from Carrick's nine parishes.
carricknames.scot/conferences-...
carricknames.scot/conferences-...
Includes 'House Martins' by me. It's in Haðarlag metre and has the highest hour-to-syllable ratio of anything I've written
While I'm reading submissions for the Winter issue of Forgotten Ground Regained, enjoy reading the current issue, devoted to Norse and Icelandic poetic form.
alliteration.net/current-issue/
alliteration.net/current-issue/
Current Issue: Fall 2025
Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse
alliteration.net
January 3, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Includes 'House Martins' by me. It's in Haðarlag metre and has the highest hour-to-syllable ratio of anything I've written
One of the many use cases for this is identifying new editions to buy based on their cover art. This one is now on my list
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 PM
One of the many use cases for this is identifying new editions to buy based on their cover art. This one is now on my list
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January 3, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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seems bad
January 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
seems bad
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I think about what some extinct and marginalized scripts would look like in popular contemporary and fantastical aesthetics if they had more footing in the world. Here’s a neon sign in Cree
January 3, 2026 at 2:58 AM
I think about what some extinct and marginalized scripts would look like in popular contemporary and fantastical aesthetics if they had more footing in the world. Here’s a neon sign in Cree
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Snow & the emigrants monument Helmsdale.
January 3, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Snow & the emigrants monument Helmsdale.
Remains the most Scottish book I've read. It's incredible
“I can’t begin to convey to you the power of Lindsay’s vision; I found it overwhelming when I first read the book, thirty years ago, & I’ve seldom seen its equal outside Blake.”
—Philip Pullman
David Lindsay’s A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS (1920) is a major influence on much of modern #fantasy
#BookWormSat
—Philip Pullman
David Lindsay’s A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS (1920) is a major influence on much of modern #fantasy
#BookWormSat
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Remains the most Scottish book I've read. It's incredible
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Image du 3 janvier :
The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, better known as The Skating Minister (1790s), by Henry Raeburn.
#wikimedia #cpod #fr
The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, better known as The Skating Minister (1790s), by Henry Raeburn.
#wikimedia #cpod #fr
January 3, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Image du 3 janvier :
The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, better known as The Skating Minister (1790s), by Henry Raeburn.
#wikimedia #cpod #fr
The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, better known as The Skating Minister (1790s), by Henry Raeburn.
#wikimedia #cpod #fr
Found another! This is in Portpatrick
📷 Billy McCrorie CC BY-SA 2.0
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📷 Billy McCrorie CC BY-SA 2.0
wikimap.toolforge.org?cat=Creel_Ch...
January 2, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Found another! This is in Portpatrick
📷 Billy McCrorie CC BY-SA 2.0
wikimap.toolforge.org?cat=Creel_Ch...
📷 Billy McCrorie CC BY-SA 2.0
wikimap.toolforge.org?cat=Creel_Ch...
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#uksnow KW16 8/10 quite blizzard-like in Orkney’s West Mainland, very strong winds and a lot of drifting. Here’s @nessbattery.bsky.social off on a mission of mercy! ❄️😳
January 2, 2026 at 4:05 PM
#uksnow KW16 8/10 quite blizzard-like in Orkney’s West Mainland, very strong winds and a lot of drifting. Here’s @nessbattery.bsky.social off on a mission of mercy! ❄️😳
January 2, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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Reminder: If it's snowing where you are, post with the hashtag #uksnow, the first-half of your postcode and a snow-rating out of 10 (x/10) and help draw a real-time map of where it's snowing right now on uksnowmap.com ❄️
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Reminder: If it's snowing where you are, post with the hashtag #uksnow, the first-half of your postcode and a snow-rating out of 10 (x/10) and help draw a real-time map of where it's snowing right now on uksnowmap.com ❄️
@tagishsimon.bsky.social I've added the Broad Stone (Inverness) to wikidata.
Is there a Trove ID property or do we just use the Canmore one?
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137659...
Is there a Trove ID property or do we just use the Canmore one?
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137659...
Broad Stone
www.wikidata.org
January 1, 2026 at 11:12 PM
@tagishsimon.bsky.social I've added the Broad Stone (Inverness) to wikidata.
Is there a Trove ID property or do we just use the Canmore one?
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137659...
Is there a Trove ID property or do we just use the Canmore one?
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137659...
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Weel A hear it aff ma faither, an he's fae the Ayrshire/Galloway border, sae yer pairts soond richt tae me 😀
January 1, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Weel A hear it aff ma faither, an he's fae the Ayrshire/Galloway border, sae yer pairts soond richt tae me 😀
Not sure what the comparative of acher is but I'm going to find out what it feels like
January 1, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Not sure what the comparative of acher is but I'm going to find out what it feels like
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Surprise find while tidying up my laptop tabs (a la @drspacejunk.bsky.social), this fantastic map of prehistoric tombs, settlements and standing stones located on the North Isles of Orkney from the @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social 'Tomb of the Isles' project. 😍
archaeologyorkney.com/tombs-of-the...
archaeologyorkney.com/tombs-of-the...
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Surprise find while tidying up my laptop tabs (a la @drspacejunk.bsky.social), this fantastic map of prehistoric tombs, settlements and standing stones located on the North Isles of Orkney from the @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social 'Tomb of the Isles' project. 😍
archaeologyorkney.com/tombs-of-the...
archaeologyorkney.com/tombs-of-the...
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Here's a New Year's #promosky.
I run Forgotten Ground Regained (alliteration.net), a website & poetry journal devoted to modern English alliterative verse. Follow my skeets if you want to see posts about poetry, scifi, Arthurian legend, & Tolkien, with occasional comments about LLMs & linguistics.
I run Forgotten Ground Regained (alliteration.net), a website & poetry journal devoted to modern English alliterative verse. Follow my skeets if you want to see posts about poetry, scifi, Arthurian legend, & Tolkien, with occasional comments about LLMs & linguistics.
January 1, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Here's a New Year's #promosky.
I run Forgotten Ground Regained (alliteration.net), a website & poetry journal devoted to modern English alliterative verse. Follow my skeets if you want to see posts about poetry, scifi, Arthurian legend, & Tolkien, with occasional comments about LLMs & linguistics.
I run Forgotten Ground Regained (alliteration.net), a website & poetry journal devoted to modern English alliterative verse. Follow my skeets if you want to see posts about poetry, scifi, Arthurian legend, & Tolkien, with occasional comments about LLMs & linguistics.
Shree appreciation post. Not, as far as I can see, in the SND but used in Kirkcudbright and (I think) Upper Nithsdale
Hae a guid 2026 awbodie. Here's howpin Warld War Shree disnae kick aff, eh?
(Keep it licht, Albert. Keep it licht.)
(Keep it licht, Albert. Keep it licht.)
January 1, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Shree appreciation post. Not, as far as I can see, in the SND but used in Kirkcudbright and (I think) Upper Nithsdale
Range significantly extended thanks to Rebecca
January 1, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Range significantly extended thanks to Rebecca