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The word 'veelage'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
veelageOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7124
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 32.8 3 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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 veelage in Corpus

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Aberdeen

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
is causey-clash gaun roon oor veelage. Thare wis guid cleckin whaur on page 99

3 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
The hail o the veelage maun hae kent thare wis a cal
1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 90 - Sally, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
e the auld saund-pit near oor veelage. It wis grey-derk whan A furs on page 58
oon had fluded wi watter. The veelage clash said the watter wis owe on page 59

2 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Flittin In, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
shiftit fower mile, frae the veelage o Lochgarland (cried Lo’gai
grocers an fleshery nae minin veelage wad lukked wycelike waantin.
n, redd bing louring ower the veelage, smoorin awpliss wi stour ivv
he cuid luk doon oan the hale veelage. Wullie nivver thocht onyaneâ
4 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
The wee veelage stream on page 16

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
gh Fenwick, bottom hauf o the veelage an weel kennt locally as yon.(2020)

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