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The word 'davyshanks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
davyshanksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.484
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 3
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 davyshanks in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@Davyshanks Pish! Better tak my breeks af(2020)
@Davyshanks Nae wye @Kennysc89883981 is o(2021)

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
@Davyshanks @originalfm aye loons, is tho(2015)

@cligeey tweeted
@Davyshanks @drl Is it doon yet?(2020)
@Davyshanks Noah furloughed noo(2020)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@Davyshanks @FaeFoggie Nae good. Hope nae(2019)
@Davyshanks @DoricPhrases Funky smellin' (2019)
@jimmy_bothwell @Davyshanks @BBCScotlandNews Aht wiz funn(2020)