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The word 'dahl'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dahlOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dahl in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
al. This is the saicont Roald Dahl buik tae be owerset intae Sco
cotland haes makit thae Roald Dahl Scots owersettins nummer ane
s dargin awa on a third Roald Dahl owersettin intae Scots o his
3 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
tin intae Scots o twa o Roald Dahl's stories cried The Eejits an
1 matches

General Central

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
an's dug-eared copy o a Roald Dahl book, on page 23

1 matches

Wilson, Rab A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid, (The National 2017) Central, newspaper
the latest instalment o Roald Dahl classics, Chairlie an the Cho
1 matches

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
Dahl I love. Scots I love. Whit a (2019)

@LairnScots tweeted
provide translations o Roald Dahl classics, as well as hunners (2018) twitter link

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
The Scotch folk hae pit Roald Dahl intae Scots. Wheeker for #Uls (2015) twitter link