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The word 'pally'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pallyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1139
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 32.2 7 4
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 pally in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
hear, they're a bit more than pally. on page 80

1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
l at the time, an Ah wis affa pally wi Albert Aitken, fa bade owe
1 matches

(South) East Central

Gilmour, Rosie Haimster Pairty, (Scots Hoose 2016) Central, weans
Ma maw an haimsters are no pally pally
pally
2 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ice wis suddenly safter, mair pally, and she leaned towards the l on page 116

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
tet Harpreet. Ah've got quite pally wi her an ah've fun out quite on page 14
taun how come yi can still be pally wi her after aw the shite she on page 79
since her an Kelly Marie got pally again in Third Year when the on page 169

3 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
lungs or kirkyaird-hoast nor pally-fittitness; on page 124

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2020) Central, prose
t Harpreet. Ah’ve got quite pally wi her an ah’ve fun out qui
1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
an’ you wis gettin’ awfa pally Ye flutter’t thone big eyel
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
wir met wi pally, elder gentlemen on page 52

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
a hundred strong, but Maw wis pally wi a doorman who let hur in t on page 3

1 matches

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