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Use in varieties of Scots

byordinar Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words23.6 34 11.2 0 0 10.9 4.4
Number of occurrences7364 7 0 0 1 1
Number of authors25 18 5 1 1

Occurrences of byordinar in Corpus

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Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
ert o July, in a lang track o byordinar heat, weirin late, a young ma on page 133

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Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
she wis a dorty craitur! Her byordinar buskin took monie a day. on page 31
'Deed growen-ups are byordinar, he said tae himsel as he gan on page 45
'Atweel, growen-ups are byordinar streenge, he jist said tae hi on page 49
I weel kent that something byordinar wis happenin. I cooried him i on page 84

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Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
There wis naethin byordinar aboot that; nor did Alison th on page 7
stert." For, ye see, sae mony byordinar things had aareadies happened on page 12
ad got sae uised tae expectin byordinar things tae happen, that it se on page 14
an an Eaglet, an a wheen mair byordinar craiturs. Alison led the wey, on page 23
t hole-an yet-an yet-it's gey byordinar, this kin o life! I wunner ju on page 34
Also on pages 43, 44
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Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
waantin oot. Thay haed duin a byordinar job ower fifty year an naethi on page 59

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
"Then somethin byordinar happened. Yin mornin, at peep on page 20
And whit a byordinar wee man he wis! on page 67
s she stood there chawin this byordinar gum. Wee Chairlie Bafhie wis on page 109
rums were aw wearin the maist byordinar claes. They had on bricht-rei on page 142

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Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
ichtin the mirror waws wi his byordinar range o sponges. Doug follaed on page 12
ed a megamuckle sneeze an its byordinar neb stertit tae uncoil tae it on page 14

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Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
It wis a byordinar sicht. The cockieleerie's bod on page 87

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Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
e shedda o itsel an loss that byordinar body o literature. on page 9

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Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
e braw flee-ers, Teegers are. Byordinar braw flee-ers.' on page 56

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Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - Review Lang Syne in the East Neuk o Fife, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
r leid, anent the humdrum and byordinar: 'My Mother was Ma Mither, My on page 54

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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Review Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
s baith a great scholar and a byordinar wumman, wha respecks ilka asp on page 62

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Purdie, David C. Lallans 67 - Leddy Stair’s Closse, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
His maist byordinar keekin gless, on page 141

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Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
ndary o the Emperor o China's byordinar porcelain palace; a palace th on page 94

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Eagle, Andy Lallans 56 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ndrew Crumey haes pitten up a byordinar steid cried Scottish Writers on page 15

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Philip, George Lallans 56 - Scotsoun Thereanent, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
a shog tae Auld Reikie wi his byordinar poem The Daft Days. Yin glisk on page 46

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Eagle, Andy Lallans 74 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ive an hain e-mail. It’s no byordinar for companies tae caw betawar
1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
byordinar literary efflorescence, inclu
point that sic materials wis byordinar.
2 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
at we wes juidged ti be thrie byordinar dunssis.
wer-airchin ruif, wes a maist byordinar
. Can ye tel me oniething o a byordinar
bene a perr o byordinar ram-stam rattil skulls, an wa
wi gratiteid an hed mair nor byordinar
7 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 62 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ark. Whit it daes inatween is byordinar. While ye‘re aff maskin the
1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 63 - Stravaigin The Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
e, thir structurs is hame tae byordinar beasties that thrives faur ay
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
staund proodly alangside the byordinar quairs o the Makars?
warks. Aamaist the hale o the byordinar muisic librar o the Chaipel R
2 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
content. She wantit something byordinar tae mak her claith unlike ony
d his workshop, an he made us byordinar toys tae play wi: birds wi pe
covert wi pentins o bulls an byordinar sea craiturs. On special days
past her. But this time, the byordinar thing wis, Atalanta wisna fas
4 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ers? An whaur did ye git thae byordinar claes, onywey?”
he micht juist hae had a gey byordinar combination o features, or be
he micht juist hae had a gey byordinar combination o features, or be
ister that there wis somethin byordinar aboot him, an hault him oot o
4 matches

McClurg, Fernando Scots, the Electoral Commission an the language community, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ther – but this is the mair byordinar for no bein aboot Scots. I ce
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Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
nor jist thon. It is a truly byordinar manuscript on twa groonds: an
Hooivver, aiblins the maist byordinar – yet tae date unnersung
ne aw in aw, Poem 49 is ayont byordinar: as muckle fur its gallus fem
y. This Wee Windae is anent a byordinar 16th-century Sapphic poem in
4 matches

wee-windaes Whit is Scots?, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2018) Central, prose
cuid be a rich dialect wi its byordinar wirds an expressions. Scrievi
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Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 90 - The Trump, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, poetry
A byordinar funcy-lik trump! on page 35

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
ain fowk, hiv ye deen onythin byordinar? Aiven e godless dee att. Ye on page 13

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Milligan, John Lallans 68 - Fu Brawlie Kythe Their Hair, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, poetry
Byordinar mense in slaisterin stents ta on page 40

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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ie last wick – tae haud ony byordinar ferlies, the auld wummin hid
gaun on aa foreneen. Naethin byordinar in thon. The Sangster hoose w
The brokerage yon day wis byordinar. The director o the Health Ce
3 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Kieran an Aidan, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
gane. Anither reerie. Naethin byordinar in aat. E same aald say, Kier
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
byordinar skeelie tradesman, plumbin, p
1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
An she saa that a wheen o byordinar icons on page 11

1 matches

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