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The word 'quirkie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
quirkieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7127
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 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 2
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 3
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 quirkie in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
iation in Scotland the day is quirkie, wi speakers o Scottish Engli
a full an siccar picter o the quirkie linguistic seetiation that ky
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Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
ti rale uise gin ye dinna hae quirkie sintences an tyrefu idaias ti on page 11

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Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ver, wis a warld awa frae the quirkie an airtfu polyphony o the pre
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
but wis repute tae no be sae quirkie and thochtie in character. Aa
1 matches

Glasgow

Durie, Nick Votin Seestems, (peffers50.freeserve 2003) Central - Glasgow, prose
es o Pairlementars; it's ower quirkie fir the votars; fowk's uisst
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
ier said nor done as leids is quirkie an full o conter-gaits. on page 15
akin aboot, despite usin this quirkie variant o gremmar perfit weel on page 33
For ordnar, the maist quirkie pairt is checkin hoo constant on page 43

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
cam common. It wis noo a mair quirkie business gettin tae set the r
1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
the page his owersettins are quirkie and demandin. Anither o the g
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wee-windaes Whit is Scots?, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2018) Central, prose
ots as a leid the day is mair quirkie than that o say Gaelic, in th
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