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The word 'seyin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
seyinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.6217
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 116.8 11 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 seyin in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 85 - D.I.Y. Doctor , (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
'Ah wis jist seyin ...' on page 35

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
Churchill. The sully man wis seyin somethin aboot Churchill bein
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
nerstaun things clear? A'm no seyin naebuddie cin be trustit, jus on page 15
uple o particklar things need seyin at the aff. Ane o them is hou on page 16
Stevenson repeatit the warnin seyin that the mither tung wuid be on page 65
they cuid tak tent o the auld seyin, gin ye cannae help dinnae hi on page 104
A HEAR FOWK seyin that they are proud tae be Sc on page 131
Also on pages 139
7 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
say that muckle o whit he wis seyin wisnae warth repeatin, tho A' on page 49
wantin the soup then." An so seyin, wi her free haun she liftit on page 61
en aulder nor us, whit he wis seyin. At thon pynt it cam tae me t on page 74

4 matches

Glasgow

Durie, Nick A Scots Letter, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Glasgow, prose
owk aulder nor is an gin ye'r seyin whut Eh trew ye are A'm gey f
1 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
acknowledging wave seyin’, “ Derek ma man, whit ke
1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
Thorfinn a portion o Orkney, seyin the laddie wis weill providit on page 14

2 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Flittin In, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
n he’d heard an auld wumman seyin a whilie syne.
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
denfreude’ as a len-wird or seyin.
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
xemple, on lairnin the Gaelic seyin tha mo cheann na bhrochan (â€
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
erance o rinnin the hoose, an seyin til the bairns. The Dunlop fa
1 matches

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