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The word 'italy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
italyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus14.44624
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 35.4 8 2
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 15.3 6 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh 37.7 6 3
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 18.7 14 8
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 italy in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
s the breid basket o northern Italy. It’s whar the fermers grow
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
hing we dae. This yin cam fae Italy no sae lang ago, an sayed tha
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ae Leddrach tae Padua ower in Italy tae attend a schule run bi th
1 matches

General Northern

Wood, Evelyn Tales Fae The Doric Side - Carlo, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
s tellin us aboot his hame in Italy. We learned some Italian wird on page 27
t fin I wis big, ''d come tae Italy. Sivinteen years passed an in on page 28
y travelled frae Scotland tae Italy. Daily use an wear hid ta'en on page 29

6 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Being in Spain or Italy on page 110

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North East Central

Heather, Alistair The ghaist lichts, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
oung Yankie pilots heidit tae Italy. She didna hear the explosion
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
a (sudron Spain), Albanian in Italy, Frisian in Germany an Scots
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
in ither kintras, the likes o Italy whaur the wis a nummer o mino
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
re fancy wines fae Germany or Italy or France.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
rea (Spain), Mario Borghezio (Italy), Michael Gahler (Germany), R
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
e jyne up wi the 8th Airmy in Italy an managed tae capture Monte
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@DavidJWood2 tweeted
me I was meant tae be aff tae Italy for a hol. Shit happens and t(2020)

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
o Apulia, nearhaun the heel o Italy. It wis an arid rocky area, l on page 100

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
we cannae compete wi Spain or Italy or Greece in developin solar on page 133

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
a tin o ravioli, importit fae Italy - nane o them had ivver heard on page 73
diterranean island o Elba aff Italy's west coast. Nou this plaise on page 91

2 matches

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
nse o humour. In wan place in Italy, thir wis a family liked him on page 76

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Terry Fae Brooklyn, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Aryshire, prose
oun a vennel in a wee toun in Italy at the back end o the war. I' on page 136

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Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
Whither in Italy, Germany, Fraunce or England,
, like the Masses an motets o Italy’s Giovanni Pierluigi da Pal
an muisicians frae England an Italy wad frequent the court. A num
lsame time that Palestrina in Italy wis componin byous warks that
4 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
Giovanni, Giacomo, welcome to Italy.’
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
“Lockdoon? Like the wan in Italy?” ah ask, castin ma mind ba
1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
endit a collogue in Veroli in Italy: the Dionysia International N on page 33
mmarised it til oor freens in Italy, tae unnerstaun masel, A soch on page 35
nse that ma wee experiment in Italy wi the French minds us, as a on page 36

3 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
But sleekit strags o Italy on page 51

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 58 - The Dumb Jyner, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
ighth Army in North Africa an Italy. Frae whit he telt Ian an Ern on page 65

3 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - review, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
the Grand Monarque, yin frae Italy o the eichteent yearhunner, a on page 109

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Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
y big folks said it summed up Italy, decadence, hoat countries, a on page 46

1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
ites research cairried oot in Italy. Researchers
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McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 59 - A Stot an a Cleg, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, prose
ae-haud in the letter-huird o Italy.
A lifie steid it wes, Italy in thon hyne-awa days, baith
2 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
end the Dolomites in northern Italy. In summer weather hot & sunn (2022) twitter link

@LowEndJardo tweeted
Gettin an italy tap aff dhgate, embdy want on (2021) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Greece an Italy ar aa til the fore. We tak th on page 5

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Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
here in the mountains between Italy and France back in the 1990s on page 33

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