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The word 'paiy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
paiyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.891
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 48.9 9 1
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 paiy in Corpus

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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Clyde Built, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
y tae folk that cannae bloody paiy it back!’ ah sais.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
his coat fur school an ye kin paiy me back when ye get yer money
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
an wis workin fur him noo tae paiy it aff. Some fuckin bother ta
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah check the paiy-as-ye-go phone McNulty gied u
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Looks the part but ah widnae paiy the money. Ah’ve worked oan
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
beggin fur a crisis loan tae paiy his bills. His request is swi
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah paiy fur them aff the score note m
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
He gies us it an ah paiy the exorbitant price waeoot a
bands, he’s goat bills tae paiy. Tryin tae save up tae buy hi
2 matches

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