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The word 'dainer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dainerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.553
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 31.5 3 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dainer in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
et yer beet's on, av seen wer dainer. So we loupet eno een o thi a on page 31

1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
mman set tee giein Mither her dainer twa days a wik, or mair exack
kly, tryin tae gie Mither her dainer, for, A haev tae say, she niv
es gat the linth o makkin the dainer, Mither wadna aet it; an I ha
3 matches

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
ungry loon in 'e middle o his dainer.(2019)