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The word 'nellie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nellieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus14.7478
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 68.7 21 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 39.9 9 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 137.2 11 1
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 nellie in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Mainland, Marlene Home Truths, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
That's Nellie the tinkler wae haar pack
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
argit - her fowk wis Bill an Nellie Fit's she deein on the telly? on page 15

3 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
. She bides Ower the road fae Nellie an Alec." on page 22
hans. "Aa Maisie said wis at Nellie hid hid an affa aifterneen: f on page 23
ddit. "Ah'm jist winnerin fit Nellie'll bi deein wi's bools." on page 24
inking of you oan the front. "Nellie" ll like ess, she luvs er flo on page 25
"Nellie. She wis phonin te thunk ye f on page 26
Also on pages 27, 87
18 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 68 - Gordon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, prose
int ower intae their gairden. Nellie wis climin ower the pailin (s on page 35

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Sweet Nellie Madden showed aff her new gan on page 176
(Nellie ..... sweet Nellie Burp thocht she wiz a mannie on page 202

9 matches

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt Mouse Eat Mouse World, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Nellie- lovely Nellie
1 matches

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
@weenell3 Thank you Nellie.. Have a lovely day yersel'.. (2022) twitter link
eenell3 Time tae relax for ye Nellie... :) (2023) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
best o ma knowledge, bade wi Nellie an hir muther, auld Mag Scott
n’. Masel, A kent Nellie Govenlock gey weil an affen e
k aa owre, hat an shuin ana). Nellie weirit derk tintit
kenna whan shei deyd. Shei an Nellie hed ae
nie ither, hed tae gie Mag an Nellie ae heize i
11 matches

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