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The word 'silage'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
silageOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.61811
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 3
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 35.4 8 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 31.4 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of silage in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
i the whole thing? I teuk the silage fork fae the byre an lifted t on page 17

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
en o the shorn field when the silage cutteen's deun. on page 48

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
ar-view mirror o the tractor. Silage and hay bales are the bounty
1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Crackan the troughs, (Brisk Northerly 2021) Orkney, blog
as they are dry. Weel fed on silage and barley, they sit content
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ledd doon ta girss, eddir fur silage, or ta graze dis graet muckle on page 62

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
r aa the warld like a hanfu o silage an the wee suppie deuk wis he on page 36

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Fermer maks silage, gangs full pelt.
Fermer makin silage stops takin in the crap.
Fermer taks in the second silage crap,
silage, if I pit doon twa or three f
it micht smell o silage a bit, come time the smell wi
5 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
As he finishes aff the silage crap
en the coort an the self feed silage. I'll be ower for the
2 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
hees claithes, ee reekit o silage anaw.
1 matches

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
. Ah mind ettlin tae fork the silage up intae the heichmaist troch
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The scent o' silage, familiar smells on page 38

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Gillen, Charles Whun A’ The Kye Had Names, (Ullans Press 2005) Ulster, poetry
An’ nae sich thing as silage seep polluted ony river.
1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
an noo they're in the yearly silage race. on page 46

1 matches

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