New York Times forces Shetland to bin Wordle 'rival' promoting Scottish dialect

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New York Times forces Shetland to bin Wordle 'rival' promoting Scottish dialect

Wordle is owned by the New York Times (Picture: Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty) A game to promote the Shetland dialect has been taken down following legal threats from the New York Times.  I Hear Dee created a free language game, called Wirdle, to promote the ‘Shetlandic’ dialect and help boost interest in the language, which resulted in more than 20,000 unique users of the game from 113 different countries. However, the US newspaper, which own…