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Use in varieties of Scots

dai Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.9 0.5 0 79.5 0 10.3 14.5
Number of occurrences131 0 8 0 1 3
Number of authors4 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of dai in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
o Archie. . . or is that Guru Dai - quiri?’ ah sais, smugly.
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
ney aksent bit tae drap a the daiälekt wirds an adopt Standard
This is komin enof tae hae a daiälekt wird: “chantan”. Fo
hantan, as maigraeshin sofans daiälekts.
yeusd tae tak aboot thir aen daiälekt yeus. Fok deu hid, kons
shislee, atween langwachis an daiälekts an registirs (whitiver
8 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Mail Order Catalogue is, Jai Dai Williams catalogue
1 matches

Ulster

Millar, Alan Yarns 3 - Sammy Thomson's, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - East Donegal, prose
Jeck Williamson, efter thair dai’s darg. They raiked far, up
t. Nae better place. Tae this dai, tha kuntrae sweeps awa frae
, that she had bided alane aa dai in her frosted tartles, a wae
3 matches

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