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Gunnel Melchers was a dialectologist and world Englishes scholar who made a unique contribution to the field from the 1970s until her death in 2021. While her greatest achievement was documentation of the dialect of Shetland (“Shaetlan”), and of the islands as a bidialectal or diglossic community, she is known to a wider public for her co‐authorship of the textbook
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