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The word 'willy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
willyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus62014
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 2
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 willy in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
h or hair and hid disna hae a willy. on page 60

1 matches

Shetland

Laurenson, Hannah Lisa Da Maa's Eggs, (Hands Up For Trad 2019) Shetland, prose
nd all tell you da story afor Willy Winky comes.”
“Daa I tink Willy Winky is come tae Libby.”
2 matches

Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
er it aff at the wa'. Jet Set Willy wi the anti piracy colour car(2020)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
eath is ca’d clean out o’t. Willy Soutar https://t.co/pbZjAhcEU (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e behind me: "How yae doin ya willy washer?" on page 37
n vain tae convince him that 'willy washer' wisnae ma actual joab on page 38

2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
moffat66 @jackkennedy_1 n wee willy renny n big george get oan li (2020) twitter link
k @WickAcademyFC is your name willy wonka son - awa n shove a ha (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e afford tae be spendin money willy nilly. on page 53
nks doon tae see how big ther willy is, She thinks she's dead fun on page 94
Willy McCoy went an pure asked me o on page 114

3 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
his kintra, an that are uised willy-nilly bi baith local an natio on page 29

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e name tae yin o the less ill-willy Uighurs the neist day. For so
ce’s name, thegither wi ill-willy lauchter. Some o the Wanderer
2 matches

Glasgow

Durie, Nick The Best o the Baith o Thaim, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
oot a nieve o ignorance, ill-willy greed and aefauld reaction. I
1 matches

Ayrshire

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 74 - Thof nae a rigmarie hae I, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
s howf tae doon yin mair guid willy-waucht.
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
ae find ma Gowden Tickets. I, Willy Wonka, will tak ye aroond the on page 59

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
ye ur, jist like yer maister, Willy-Fisher Supreme, BoJo the Clow(2020)

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
were placed alang th course, willy-nilly. There was nae "Yin, tw on page 26

1 matches

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