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Use in varieties of Scots

delay Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.2 5.6 6 0 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences1711 4 0 0 0 2
Number of authors15 9 4 2

Occurrences of delay in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
en casually remarked that ony delay wid be an awfy shame fir aw c on page 91

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Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Tae buy a beast withoot delay on page 20

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Ma concentration withoot delay is coordinated taewards this on page 50

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
oot his mouth. Ilka meenit's delay wis costin him money in bonus on page 48

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Delay will yet brack oor hopes aari on page 24
nae nou. Delay will trip us up. on page 35

2 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
aboot tae experience ma furst delay.
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Facebook link ( 2021) Central
air an mair frustratit at the delay …. Nae that Sir Robert wis

@g_hibby tweeted
@DW80000 Sorry aboot the delay here Davie.. Dishes tae dae.. (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
rus is runnin riot - would a delay for a fortnite not b a more s (2020) twitter link
ting was last week - why the delay? (2020) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
t, anxious fir onythin at wid delay the meenit fin he wid hae te on page 39

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Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
merely remarkan at a meenad's delay wid cost them their lives. on page 89

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@d_anderson878 tweeted
A dinnae think the delay wis tae let them mak a guid P(2020) search twitter

@daleser23 tweeted
allumC19 did wonder aboot the delay like(2013) search twitter

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
jest remarkin that a minute's delay wud cost thim thir lives. on page 92

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Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
maun redd them oot wi'oot ony delay. He took them, kist ana, oot on page 14

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