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The word 'donkeys'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
donkeysOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
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 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of donkeys in Corpus

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General Northern

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
an they were a bunch o donkeys. She winnirt if he'd gotten a on page 17

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@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@Wattiejwattie Hinna been fir donkeys. Plannin' on gan Sunday. Is t(2019)
rankfurt Athin under ae reef. Donkeys years afore Tesco,etc.(2019)

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
ueensferry have been shut for donkeys. Madness ?????(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
thor followed the juniors for donkeys years m8 - n took games in e (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Donkeys ago on page 48

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
s Field wuz, the yin that hud donkeys, noo thurs flats on page 47
Noo its fu o donkeys o a different kind. on page 48

2 matches

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