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The word 'vil'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
vilOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6126
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of vil in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Irvine, Owen Eldritch Story, (The Gaudie 2018) Doric - Banff, weans
dug. “Yev Kill’t ma dug! Vil skin ye alive wee loon!” in
1 matches

(South) East Central

McFarlane, Ishbel Time tae mairch oot o oor climate comfort zones, (The National 2019) Central, newspaper
rld, in acts o non-violent cívil disobedience. A bricht hashta
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Vil risk that,” sayed Rongye.
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ter efter a week o hobnobbin. Vil tak a leuk ower the gairden a on page 55

1 matches

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