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The word 'courtesy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
courtesyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.587
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of courtesy in Corpus

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Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
rts A collection ower decades courtesy o my dad ??(2019)

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
mait in her belly. Syne oot o courtesy and Beannie’s priggin, Lizz
1 matches

Aberdeen

Hardie, Buff Dod 'n' Bunty, (Evening Express 2000) Doric, newspaper
s nae excuse. A bit o' common courtesy widna hiv come amiss. Onywye,
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Courtesy o' aul Mrs Gibbon on page 97

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
eak her the three hunner quid courtesy ae, Aldo. As ah'm stood in th on page 84

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
pped sirloin steaks which are courtesy ae the prestigious James Ande
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
tirely. The erosion ay common courtesy an respect for yer elders in
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
ends,' he cairried on, 'is by courtesy o Messrs Boggin, Boonce and B on page 78

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