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The word 'railwye'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
railwyeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4115
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 35.4 8 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of railwye in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Moarnin Ida Kames, (Shetland For Wirds 2007) Shetland, poetry
on da railwye we never hed.
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
s up abeen the grun, atap the railwye struts that luikit like yon a
1 matches

General Northern

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
Her faither worked in the railwye. Near aabody in Inverurie wor on page 14
untie in the countryside. The railwye track wis jist ahin the hoose on page 15
yon. So her faither left the railwye, an he workit in a factory, c on page 17
ot gaun tae the dunces in the Railwye Hall, an foo she met her fait on page 18
"The Railwye Hall", she said, an they gaed on page 19

7 matches

Mitchell, Ian R. Lallans 63 - Walkin Woundit, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
r wis a lad fit wurkit on the railwye, and on the ither side anithe
1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
Railwye
1 matches

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