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The word 'diy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
diyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of diy in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
are room #pinechest #storage #diy #flatpackedfurniture… https: (2018) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
rty nine ~ Kemnay area enjoys DIY, cooking, horse riding, walki on page 52

2 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
is how his wife describes his DIY skills (2020) twitter link

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
aring aboot box sets, baking, diy, time.....reading....I wish (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
tae heid straight back fur ma DIY kit. Leavin this plastic gang
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
aw that, A'm no a big fan o DIY Scots an winna be publishin o on page 6

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
B,Ed, RYA, DIY.
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
lster-Scots is naethin but a "DIY language", "farmer talk" or a
1 matches

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