A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'seyed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
seyedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.6183
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 159.3 15 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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)

Occurrences of seyed in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 62 - Blue Lift Snaw, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
a laddie dae? I wis ower sair seyed whan the Deil sent me Elsie,
ent me Elsie, Lord, ower sair seyed. But the day it’s no sae le
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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
laim of Right' fae 1689 whilk seyed that the King, Jimmy vii, had on page 43
aun cultural revival, as A've seyed afore, is tae celebrate as mo on page 51
A hae seyed it elsewhaur in this book but on page 67
cts - the Corries. They were seyed, bi some, tae be a bit ower p on page 69
gs. No verra weel, it maun be seyed forbye (music, tho, is ane o on page 70
Also on pages 71, 79, 82, 88, 104, 115, 116, 126, 127, 142
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General Central

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
Auld Testament. [‘And Ruth seyed, Dinna entreat me tae lea tho
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