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The word 'onymair'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
onymairOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.53718
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 52.3 16 7
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 44.3 10 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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) 102.5 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of onymair in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
ndra wisna thinkin tae hissel onymair, he wis jist plain shoutin. on page 84

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Ah dinna need te diet onymair. An as fir the reunion...Ah'v on page 72
nk winna bi needin his shovel onymair, wull he?" on page 82

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
n an they warna gaun onyplace onymair, afore they streakit oot wi t
xcept it wisna Granda's dairy onymair, it wis Granny's, because Gra
2 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
she couldna feel that beauty onymair. Aathing she loved wiz being
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
na miss the circus, or India, onymair.
“I dinna think I can dae onymair fur Kirsty Ann,” he wis say
excitin onymair.
neck. If Tommy didna wint him onymair, he wadna bide. He’d rin aw
ither rareities naebody socht onymair, tae gang ben the road tae Ba
6 matches

Irvine, Owen Eldritch Story, (The Gaudie 2018) Doric - Banff, weans
his wiznae a place o the lord onymair. Paul's airm wiz thumpin’ s
dy gings oot by the auld kirk onymair. Some fowk say they hear a sm
2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ia Britannica at the shoppies onymair?(2018)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
ng loon. I'm nae a young loon onymair. Dinna hink i shoppie selt mo(2019)

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
would be me.’ He disna say onymair, and I’m nae sure exactly f
1 matches

General Northern

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
bugger hid refused tae gie us onymair till me Da coughed up. And ma on page 42

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
Jamie disna wint te come roon onymair? Jenna says she wis aat her c on page 94

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
I dinna wint tae gan ootside onymair on page 94
Cos I'll no be 'ere onymair on page 106
Does it mean ye dinna love me onymair? on page 164

8 matches

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross Eemis Stane 1 - Ane Dialog betwix King James VI, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, script
King James: No onymair. Nevermar. It is relegatit ta on page 11

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Bauld pain or thirl onymair
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
, naebdy says “playtime” onymair. No unless they want slagged
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
Naebody says whit they mean onymair, an politics as we ken it is
1 matches

Edinburgh

Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
fact that naebody steys there onymair. Sae maugre o wir interaction
1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 87 - The Neep Lantern, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Central, prose
t, tull A cuidnae thole thaim onymair an A stertit greetin. A kent on page 22

1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
itely disnae exist in English onymair. Some folk say 'ootwith' an t (2020) twitter link

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
ces dinnae believe in ghaists onymair, mair nor thon's no tha way o on page 13
They'll no see onymair on page 31

2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
be at St. Joseph’s wi Harry onymair an ye winnae see much o Gary
1 matches

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