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The word 'nev'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nevOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.274
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 3
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 nev in Corpus

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Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Yusan yur nev tae maeshur bekeen ingediunts on page 31

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
in a tirse lifcs fae a nev o rock, ice-cloored. on page 36
his tyoch nev, at's pickit, on page 64
a nev at his chin. I da wheepin arc on page 68

3 matches

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
d da port side wi a ham-sized nev, causin flakes o roost tae fa
k an auld craa. He raised his nev intae da air, and smacked da
2 matches

Nicholson, Hannah Da Wye At I Spaek, (self-published 2021) Shetland - Brae, poetry
Haein lifted a braw nev-foo
1 matches

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