- Shetland or the Shetland islands
- is the accepted designation for the Scottish islands. The Shetlands is frowned on by some and thus better avoided.See also Orkney.
Dictionary of troublesome word. Bill Bryson. 2013.
Shetland or the Shetland islands
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