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The word 'doonby'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
doonbyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6202
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
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) 321.2 9 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 312.8 11 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of doonby in Corpus

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Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
it was deid, sae she laid it doonby on page 11
Doonby tha plantin, forenent tha mos on page 15
Doonby tha prittas fiel A stapped - on page 16
Doonby tha prittas fiel A stapped on page 19
An piled them up doonby. on page 20
Also on pages 30, 34, 35, 51
9 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
ellick a wee gulder if you're doonby: aye up for a yarn in the aul (2014) twitter link
the #UlsterScots Proclamation doonby Ballygellick postbox, 1916. h (2016) twitter link
Quare an emotional the day doonby the poast-box, whaur Great Gr (2016) twitter link
guire Cannae believe ony folk doonby Beragh spake thon daft dialec (2015) twitter link
n Broxtowe? I'll hae tae jook doonby. (2016) twitter link
and 6 other occurrences.