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The word 'ski'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
skiOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4116
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 37.7 6 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 ski in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

General Northern

Philip, George Tales Fae The Doric Side - Winter, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Slaw ski thir lairnin legs doon silken on page 80

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Ei wiz lookin fir cash we a ski mask on page 63

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Flemings o’ Dalnoid, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
e shower at Dalnoid, durin' a ski-weekend wi' the college. Ma F
s was a weel ken't stop efter ski-in', for a richt guid meal, a
coach broke doon at Glenshee ski centre an' we didn't get back
'Mang aw' those who ski.
her. We were at Dalnoid for a ski-ing weekend, when Ma died. On
5 matches

McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
“Ok we’re Jist aboot tae ski doon this run.” At once she
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Stevie. . . forget it ma bro-ski. No your fault, mone in.’ h
1 matches

General Central

Fyall, Aitken Lallans 74 - Rabbie’s Retrospeck, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
For après-ski and Costa Brava
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
though as a couldnae hold the ski sticks properly! Hee hee!? xx(2015)

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