A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'dingle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dingleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.173
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.2 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 dingle in Corpus

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(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
luebell laddie called a baldy dingle - is it u thats the baldy bi (2020) twitter link
broony - the sam dingle o celtic fitbaw club lol http (2021) twitter link
ys - but where wis the baldy dingle - thanks fir the drinks lads (2020) twitter link
the baldy dingle wis sensational 2 nite - btf (2020) twitter link
the sam dingle of amateur fitbaw - hus left (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
‘Naw. Ah’m gid, ye dingle.’
1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 85 - Archie Dodds, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
e ruif, makkin the fire-bells dingle. Ma scuil-bag on page 22

1 matches

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