A peerie vocabulary test

durham_rambler pointed me to a little video in which Shetlander Steven Robertson invites fellow members of the cast of Shetland to interpret a few local words: here it is on FaceBook or on Instagram. It's just a piece of promotion for the show, of course, but quite fun. I note that only the most recent addition to the roster has any difficulty with the word 'peerie'; compare the Channel 4 knitting show, which was bandying it about without comment, as a piece of technical jargon relating to Fair Isle patterns (which must include both larger motifs and peerie elements).

For a more impenetrable take on Shetland dialect, here's a somewhat younger Steven Roberston with We No Spik No Whalsa' (English language version, with distracting lightshow).