A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'duffy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
duffyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus17.8576
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 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 239.1 52 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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 duffy in Corpus

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
h100 Taylor still better than Duffy and Hoban wis poor at the pen (2020) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
Wright cleaning oot Duffy again(2020)
gers @mcbainne Wright skinnin Duffy couple of times oot wide wis (2020)

(South) East Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
er queried whether Carol Anne Duffy warranted a place on merit. I on page 95

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
n second year Clicky an Chris Duffy an aw their pals startet hing on page 169

51 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Carol Ann Duffy and Vikram Seth, on page 37

1 matches

General Central

@LairnScots tweeted
y themorra! Compare Carol Ann Duffy's poem 'Valentine' wi this po (2018) twitter link