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The word 'onyway'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
onywayOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.2239
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 23 5 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 126.5 9 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of onyway in Corpus

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General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
ump on the stagecoach the noo onyway(2020)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
- u gannets r foo oh schect onyway - steveseagull ffs - u shoo (2020) twitter link
ma main fanbase is up in wick onyway (2021) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
'No fur lang onyway,' Miss Trunchbull bouffed, gr on page 79
!' rousted Miss 'Trunchbull. 'Onyway, ah've made a rule in this sc on page 82
d he wis fair clivvir hissel. Onyway, parents never unnerestimated on page 85
e picked a chair and sat doon onyway. "This,' she said, 'wis yer d on page 88
roubles. Ah wis affrontit and onyway ah'm no that brave. Any smedd on page 189

5 matches

Ayrshire

Meikle, William Overheard in a Cemetery, (ABCTales.com 2004) Central - Ayrshire, prose
yours an' did whit ye wanted onyway. Then ah wis always big bad D
, He wis always a Mammy's boy onyway.
2 matches

General Central

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
Onyway ah arrive ootside the gate. P

@fairpechtoot tweeted
annae represent yer hale sel. Onyway, nane taken.(2017)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
t, nor did he ever thank her. Onyway, it wis roon about then that
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Onyway, gin ye get doon on your hurd on page 8

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
noo they cannae! Aa the best onyway! (2014) twitter link
could dae wi redding them oot onyway - they cannae spake richt av (2014) twitter link
but an (Ulster) Scots thing onyway. Aa the best! (2014) twitter link
ner ye. But we'll keep er lit onyway my freend! (2015) twitter link
a crabbed an thrawn aul crew onyway - we dinnae mind bein on oor (2014) twitter link
and 4 other occurrences.