A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'awy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
awyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9134
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 351.6 10 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of awy in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ir wisna a meenad till waste: awy went Alice leck e wind, an wi on page 10
icht, they were gettan so far awy). "Oh, ma poor peedy feet, A on page 15
-gloves an e fan, an skurried awy intill e darkness as hard as on page 17
ain!" For e Moose wis Swimman awy fae her as hard as id could g on page 22
e Moose, gettan up an walkan awy. "Ee insult me by talkan such on page 29
Also on pages 48, 59, 78, 81
10 matches

Mid Northern A

McArthur, Kaydi Rich n Peer, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
rsneckie bit he floated aboot awy.
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
handle the wet stuff-laddies awy delicate the noo lol (2020) twitter link

West Central

Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
ly say it’s a sotter. Stuff awy!
1 matches

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