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The word 'nories'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
noriesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.12612
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 40.7 7 2
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 2
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.7 11 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 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 nories in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
inna da gairden, De'r tammie nories at Sumburgh on page 87

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@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ave birds (as are Guillys and Nories). Beautiful, powerful, agile.(2020)
the other night and saw more Nories than I've seen there in years(2020)
lower fae noo on! Still a few nories da day. Soon be gone :((2013)
Cloods o Tammy Nories at Da Head! A sheeny swirl o (2013)
end, alangside da Dunters and Nories. #4Wild #Shetland https://t.c(2019)

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
it seems tae full my heid wi nories - but I dinna ken azacly fit on page 23

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West Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Rants and Foys, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
nna tyne wirds on sic mistaen nories, but ettle tae gie an evendoo on page 56

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
y that the heidmaist ideas an nories at haes stellt the magazine i on page 6

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ption o the uncle’s sindrie nories as he lawbors unner his delus
1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
cultur, an in parteiklar, the nories o MacDiarmid’s ‘Scottish
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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
racism wi their repetition o nories like we're aw subsidy-junkies on page 47
e depend on onie middle-class nories o acceptabilty, respectabilty on page 75

2 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
an St Kilda as his ingait tae nories o ancient customs an sattleme on page 110

1 matches

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
tor want ti threip on his ain nories ti sic a lenth at members o t on page 4

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ns theirsels, tho he had some nories o his ain aboot the ideal wey on page 56

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
Aw the auld Romantic nories that humans held in lang fern
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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
e thare wis that few o thaim. Nories anent langage gien expression
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Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
oot for ti read1. It biggs on nories laid doun bi Thomas Berry2, w
ice. It is an eik til existin nories aboot human juistice ootwards
iks as gin it’s pittin auld nories intil new claithes. We hae na
s, plants an launscapes. Thir nories isna new, but what is new is
th mainstreamin’? Daft-like nories? Mebbies ‘ay’ an mebbies
5 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
icht less taen up wi nebulous nories nor English. Scots is certain on page 34

1 matches

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