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The word 'nines'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ninesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.71210
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 nines in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
fir tickets: dolled up te the nines an dreepin wi gold bungles an on page 59

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Elspeth wis dolled up te the nines - aa reed lipstick an nails on page 27

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
him an dressed him up till e nines an pat him back tae Pilate. A on page 119

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
toon quines decked up tae the nines, wi their hair tied up in rib
1 matches

General Northern

TheChielMeister Ah'm e chiel (sae dinna fash), (youtube.com 2011) Doric, poetry
e ah ootriggit masel up tae e nines
1 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
gaun on. Dressed fair tae the nines wi' a hat an' a stick. Then, on page 17

1 matches

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
assies wurr tartit up tae the nines - well so they thought - wa
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
courie bookie done up tae the nines fur his dochter's weddin, and on page 44

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
omin back, dressed up tae the nines, wae a pair ae white kid-glov on page 17

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
e Mr. Poe, dressed up tae the nines wi his wife staunin next tae on page 139

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
Doris Day, dressed up tae the nines oan a rickety carriage singin on page xiv

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
yer shouders, made up tae the nines. Ye carried yersel wae a conf on page 76

1 matches

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