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The word 'twaa'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
twaaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.3339
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 49 15 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 94.8 8 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 1
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 twaa in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ad at can tak up mair waar in twaa oors as dey wid a kerried in on page 10

1 matches

Sinclair, Lise Juist laek Maunna, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, poetry
An twaa weeks mibbe o steerin an poor
1 matches

Sandison, Iris Da Tree Peerie Grice, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, weans
So da twaa o dem sat trimmlin inside da
1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ephant tapestry yon te’en me twaa years!(2014)
Nivver sit neist tae twaa or mair auld ladies in a caf (2014)
The neist time twaa weemen dunt on ma door fin ma(2015)
Denner fur twaa wi bottle i' wine aat Prezzo (2016)
reether, ah’ve already bocht twaa bottles fae Fine Fare!(2018)
and 10 other occurrences.

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
an there ye are in yer twaa-year-aul element on page 14
Ye can hardly see twaa fit in front a ye on page 17
In its twaa largest cities, on page 19
even as a twaa-year-aul, on page 30
ne o their mither's asked far twaa on page 33
Also on pages 50
8 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
n stab wi mah fingir. Ane ... twaa ... three ... there. Bloody h on page 40

2 matches

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 58 - The Bothy Loon, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
nd I got richt freendly syne. Twaa-three nichts i the week I wis on page 124

1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 73 - Proverbs o Hell, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
in twaa reid haufs on page 78
A spugh is an Einstein on twaa wings. on page 80

2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
The twaa douce quines
Twaa concaity makars
2 matches

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