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The word 'nailed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nailedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.31714
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
SHD - Shetland
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 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
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
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 7
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 nailed in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
And nailed me bi the jaicket when I said on page 10
illick o the Bu cam by and he nailed Pete bi the coat. on page 50
edie chap leapt on hid and he nailed hid tae the floor Till a jab on page 74

3 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
dug' ll aet onythin aat's nae nailed doon." on page 72

1 matches

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 63 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
the jile and tortured, / And nailed tae a widden cross? / When wi
1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
Wha's ivir nailed it doun on page 121

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
windaes, doors, ticht-nailed like a coaffin- on page 112

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
erglen, whaur yestreen he had nailed a defiant declaration tae the on page 35

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
and wis fair gled she hadnae nailed Mr. Poe wi it. on page 8
tuffed heid o a lion that wis nailed tae the waw tae the bowl o ai on page 23

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
gittin nailed til a tree on page 78

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Ye're nailed ti grief. on page 35

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
syne he was nailed tae a widden cross. on page 97

1 matches

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
tter the sprig o yew that wis nailed tae the kist
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
unds despatched tae Lanark an nailed tae the Tolbooth door. A stoo

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
That pups got that cute look nailed, I bet you had tae play ??(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
as he nailed the shae trigly intae place on page 22

1 matches

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