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The word 'citie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
citieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1106
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 1
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 42.2 3 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of citie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Johnston, Mary Lallans 81 - A Day at Edinbro Feestival, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric, prose
see fit gings on in e Capital Citie at att time. Ye dinna mind on
1 matches

General Northern

Johnston, Mary Lallans 83 - Chief wi Een Anither, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
e stravaiged ower e reefs o e citie an thocht o ither dunts an pl on page 83
im, an cat gid skulkin ahin e citie waa til e Kirk an slurped hal on page 84

2 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
the wynds o this citie. on page 35

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
In this citie o whispers doon daurk, smokey on page 9

1 matches

Niven, Liz Burnin Whins, (Luath 2004) Central, poetry
tae Edinburgh citie neist ye went.
1 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
rebigg an' graw oor "Shinin' Citie oan the Knowe", hit maun bae on page 20

2 matches

Bennett, Hazel Tha Near Cut, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
ed airt on tha mairches o tha citie. Dear kens, there wus eneuch
1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
e tae reck an ruin, an iverie citie or hoose divid agin itsel wul on page 9

1 matches

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