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The word 'owldest'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
owldestOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.653
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 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
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 owldest in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. New Lambs, Owld Stone, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
’s the remains o some o the owldest life on Earth rooed up ootsid
1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
"Flit's da owldest rule ida book," said da Keeng on page 119

1 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
ae whit richtly belangs ta da owldest i da faimily.' Esau wis dat d on page 11
, an he towt dat it wid be da owldest boy dat he wis ta sain. Dan h on page 23
fir aabody 'll be göd fae da owldest ta da peeriest bairn. I sal o on page 65

3 matches

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