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The word 'skailed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
skailedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.54019
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 28.1 11 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 43.9 7 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 13.4 10 7
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) 98.5 3 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of skailed in Corpus

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Orkney

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
yin green abune, whar hid wis skailed oot tae dry in the guid wathe
r sheu cuppit oot the tang an skailed hid oot, an thinkin neen at h
tten a lok o' tang teen ap an skailed on the green, hid wis comin t
3 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
eer-stained fleer, groanin as skailed peanuts powkit inte's bare ba on page 16

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
her friens fin the skweel hid skailed a wikk syne. Her Da hid fleen
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Sanners Gow's Tales and Folklore of the Buchan - The Clootie Dummmplin!, (Ayton Publishing 2017 ISBN: 978-1910601419) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ter Jocky coupit the barra an skailed the kale reets aboot the grun
Jocky wiz grummlin aboot the skailed reets an his gweed sark bein
2 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
e comic buiks Ian had no lank skailed oot kis they wis ower juvenil on page 97

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
iggars, foundit 1850. Whan he skailed frae skuil, Rab wes prentised
Maistres Stein, thai skailed, bot no afoir Staun wirriet b
juist sicna ploy. Suin thai skailed ti kep thair omnies at wes wy
Eftir, whan the men-fowk skailed ti wattir the horss an bed do
A didna wiss at onie bluid be skailed,” sayed Mirren.
7 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
ival, StAnza. Afore yin group skailed, the norrie haed been bandied
1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
antae the fire. Hauf the coal skailed ower tae jine the screivin oa
wis sayin. Is Annie scartled skailed coals aff the flair, flang th
2 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Dalquharter (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9559-105-6-2) Central, prose
set wi whyt inkervit desings. Skailed about aw owre wes taibils an on page 2

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
thai cuid erek haillie ruids skailed aw owre the keingryke decored on page 45
urse the wes the uiswal bluid skailed, furby. The tyme at Gallik tu on page 47

2 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
2. Skailed Chaff on page 112

4 matches

Ayrshire

Neill, Willie Lallans 61 - Three Tales frae the Brithers Grimm, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Ayrshire, prose
roth tuimt oot an the sunkets skailed abreid. An whan the fowk saa on page 42

1 matches

General Central

Crichton, Tam Lallans 84 - Ower the Faem Pairt Twa: Doon the Watter, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
The day bricht bluid wull be skailed on page 57

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
haimmer. Again the wee prince skailed my thochts. | on page 28

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
ckly back tae the kitchen. He skailed 'the haill lot intae the pot. on page 35
Yin by yin, Geordie skailed and skooshed the things intae on page 79
sudden stapped and the steam skailed. That wis when Grannie sterte on page 99

3 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
giein aff flickerin shaddaes. Skailed aw ower the flair were empty on page 125

1 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
and ev'n afore the schule had skailed on page 52

1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
resource skailed.
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
i 2011, an furth o their faur-skailed stranghauds, remain a pairty
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Great Divide, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
irts, an the Unionist vote is skailed mair evenly amang the ither p
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
The skillet skailed, bluid struled Sutherland cur on page 59

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Wi heirskip skailed. on page 6
An skailed thaim aa tae fin thair guns, on page 48
Skailed on page 51

3 matches

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