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The word 'wyvin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wyvinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1137
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle) 8547 1 1
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 31 7 2
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 wyvin in Corpus

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North Northern A (Black Isle)

Facebook link ( 2013) Doric - Buckie
ies fin at sea. I aince hid a wyvin machin an turned oot as mony

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
it," said Dot, layin doon her wyvin. on page 84

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
brummils grew in yon divits o wyvin girse an wanderin willie, an
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
t doon atap an auld fish box, wyvin a net wi a bane shuttle – b
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
e telt us his Granma wis aye "wyvin a maazie" in ither words knit (2020) twitter link

General Northern

Innes, Brian P. Tales Fae The Doric Side - Thochts o a Teacher, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
essage bag stuff an ma piece. Wyvin bane a crowd o pupils, desper on page 49

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
l Yowe sittin in a bow-cheir, wyvin, an nous an nans devaalin tae on page 69
we, nae een keekin up fae her wyvin. "I didna pit thaim there, an on page 73
ang. The Yowe heild on wi her wyvin aa the file, as gin naethin h on page 74

6 matches

General Central

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - Banes, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Wyvin forrit wi fierce snuffs. on page 75

1 matches

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