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The word 'amerikay'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
amerikayOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.654
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 42.2 3 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of amerikay in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
(by ither brainy gadgies fae Amerikay) has shawn that wolfish ongau
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Ode Tae 2021 , (twitter 2022) Ulster - Comber, poetry
on lads fae Cork, Slovakia an Amerikay.
1 matches

General Ulster

Ni Chuilin, Caral Roadin furtae Bring Forrits an Graith tha ULSTER-SCOTCH Leid, Heirskip an Cultur, (Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 2015) Ulster, government
tha like o Scoatlan an Noarth Amerikay. on page 50

2 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
ony notion whan the folk fae Amerikay elect their high-heid-yin? (2016) twitter link

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