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The word 'glivs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
glivsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4144
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 3
SHD - Shetland 63.9 11 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of glivs in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
. Sheu tirvs the muckle pilot glivs an vacuum-insulaeted gansey, on page 158

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
glivs an hats, staeys there on page 56

1 matches

Peace, Courtney The 'Guid' Life, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
Me glivs were waarm fae the fire,
1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
style, wi a pair o white kid glivs in ee haand an a muckle fan i on page 18
lice gaddered up da fan an da glivs, an, seein as da haal wis aaf on page 19
ite Rabbit's peerie white kid glivs while shö wis spaekin. "Foo on page 20
kin da fan an da pair o white glivs, an shö kindly startit hunsi on page 33
better tak him his fan an his glivs-dat is, if I can lay haands a on page 34
Also on pages 36
11 matches

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