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History in a Wird: the origins of dratsi

IN THE next instalment of the I Hear Dee project’s History in a Wird series, we feature the origins of the Shetland word for otter. The word dratsi is an extremely rare example of a former fishermen’s taboo work entering regular vocabulary. Run by linguists Dr Viveka.

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