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The word 'wagtail'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wagtailOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.654
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 3
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
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of wagtail in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine St Ninian's Isle, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, poetry
a wagtail micht a tippit in ta sit wi h
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
articular bird call. My first wagtail o da year flew doon ontae da (2014)
My first waggy wagtail o da year :-D https://t.co/j2(2016)

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
anyone else noticed the pied wagtail uprising going on in the stre(2019)

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
ails are cawed Wullie! Wullie Wagtail! (2021) twitter link