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The word 'val'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
valOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.6187
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
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
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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)
GUL - General Ulster 140.6 10 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of val in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
oatia) / hrvatski (Croatian), València (Valencia, Spain) / val on page 8

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ccessfu enclaves, the likes o Val d'Aran in Catalonia, gied som
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
haracters Cléante, Marianne, Valère an Elvire is written in E
1 matches

General Central

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
though. Check the coupon. Go Val(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ee you've met some o them tae Val ?? (2022) twitter link
@Holdfast214 @MrMalky Cheers Val.... I'll search for tae ?? (2022) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
Val McDermid https://t.co/1R0MWGG (2021) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Evie OOR WULLIE’S SEASON’S GREET, (Largs Writers Group 2015) Central - Largs, prose
i the magic Jeanie, played bi Val lookin trig in her wee tartan
1 matches

General Ulster

Bennett, Hazel Tha Near Cut, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
“Whit dae ye think, Val?”
e wurnae fae tha tither side. Val haed tae mind scho haed ae br
cteeve terrorist fur tha fae. Val’s mither aye sez at, gin ye
Val stairtit tae think lang anent
n fleeched tae little matter. Val haed stairted tae doot gif th
10 matches

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