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The word 'ayweys'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ayweysOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.8253
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 150.6 24 2
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 ayweys in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
Drumtulloch hid ayweys bin a richt quair place, so h on page 84

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 82 - Biggin the Great Nor Road, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
sledgehammer whanged, ayweys dirl. Eftir the blast on page 66

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 83 - Phantasmagoria, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
An ayweys ah kow-tow tae the rasp on page 70

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
some tides an times ayweys deliver on page 18

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
it sayed ‘mind gym’. That ayweys made her smile. Naebody cared
or a year, an for aa that it ayweys had the ilk feelin aboot it,
cna expressive face, he hadna ayweys been blin. At some crucial py
the site engineer, bit he wis ayweys shut inside a wee hut o his a
sea,” he sayed. “Ah’ve ayweys wintit tae see the sea.” He
21 matches

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