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The word 'shui'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shuiOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.2361
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 209.2 36 1
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 shui in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
an midder wis baith deed, an shui bed ithin a plaece caad Backa on page 35

30 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - Da Odyssey (1-75), (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, poetry
Sae sed shui; an clood-hentin Zeus gae ans
in quarried caves wi Poseidon shui conceived him.
2 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
written doon wi a dooble AA. Shui seems ta hae nae budder readi
ain pronunciation. Forby dat, shui haes nae ‘ch’ soond in wi
itten wi a CH i dem, even toh shui duisna soond it. Bit if I sug
yuckered up her midder tongue shui hed da example o Iceland ta f
4 matches

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