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The word 'sheila'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sheilaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.5218
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 sheila in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Here's Sheila tae tell you on page 11

1 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
So Barbara and Sheila, on page 25

1 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
e first wis Maggie o Quoys bi Sheila Garson. on page 34

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
rappitd! He wis mentioned dis Sheila a time or twa, da lass at wro on page 38
da weekend, an dan du can tak Sheila oot fur a run a Sunday." on page 39
wha's in da office, Mind dat Sheila at Randy Andy took ta Busta d on page 40

6 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Sheila wis busy hackin sticks When s on page 15

3 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
r, the nurse telt iz thit wee Sheila, whit shae
aw day an maist o the nicht. Sheila haid bin in
whin thay gaed ower ta Sheila wi her nittin A shut ma een t
3 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - Joco Geordie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
An aye thare wis Sheila, his ain lass an his muckle l on page 10

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
best. The tap prize gaed tae Sheila Templeton wi her poem My Land
Sheila Templeton wis born in Aiberde
2 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - Review Lang Syne in the East Neuk o Fife, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
heeze - are ye readin this, Sheila Wellington? on page 54

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 58 - The Sang o the Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
til't throu the Fowk Revival. Sheila Stewart represents the great on page 77

1 matches

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