Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'onyweys'

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Use in varieties of Scots

onyweys	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	6.2	20	10
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	6.5	2	1
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	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow	27.1	5	1
AYR - Ayrshire	13.1	1	1
LAL - General Central	9.4	7	4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	55.6	4	3
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 onyweys 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.

Mid Northern A

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
in tae mak him see me ...Weel onyweys, Ah'm here noo, so Ah suppose on page 84

2 matches

Edinburgh

Capener, Jack Eemis Stane 1 - Syne, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
onyweys? on page 10

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
it wis guid practice fir her onyweys) "-aye, that's aboot the righ on page 9
etter'n evens it kin talk: an onyweys, they cannae hing ye fir tryi on page 21
ned it an pit it tae her lips onyweys. "Suhin interestin's bound ta on page 34
hat's aw ah kin dae aboot it, onyweys. Noo whit's gonnae happen tae on page 35
k at, is he," said the King: "onyweys, he kin kiss ma haun if he'd on page 84

5 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
m gey near shuir it can talk: onyweys, there's nae herm in tryin." on page 21

1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 87 - The Neep Lantern, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Central, prose
it bairn stull, A didnae ken. Onyweys it wis nae maitter, A wis aye on page 22

3 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
robably wisnae poisonous, and onyweys, she wis stairvin. Klaus stai on page 73
the name o Al Foncoot forby, Onyweys, I'll be awfie thrang ower th on page 78

2 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 58 - The Dumb Jyner, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
no near as daft as auld Eden onyweys!" on page 65

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
that wadnae speik tae onybody onyweys, nane o them wad be there. on page 37

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
No like him onyweys, gettin it on page 77

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
seek o ye hingin aboot wi us onyweys on page 53

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
it acause they're Scots names onyweys. Am Ah best durritin ye thir?(2020)
s whae Ah meant aye! Haud gan onyweys, nae loss whit a freen gets. (2020) twitter link