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The word 'sheltie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sheltieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.7315
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 151.1 26 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
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 sheltie in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
ce dae wir a lass at dey caad Sheltie Prattle. Her faider an midder on page 35

26 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
tt disna lowse his coo or his sheltie fae e staa an tak it oot tae on page 104
them, "Gin ony een o ye his a sheltie or a stirkie att faas intill on page 105

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
maist o aa, she thocht on the Sheltie Steen in the wids that raise
1 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
@SheltieDon Yass cheers sheltie I luv it(2020)

General Central

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
a glisk; a sheltie, tethered in a meadow, took f
1 matches

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