A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'calfie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
calfieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.893
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of calfie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
en on his feet. An fess e fat calfie, kill it an we'll ett an be m on page 107

3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
icht pett an bosie a new-born calfie, bit fin yon calfie turned ti
, bit fin yon calfie turned till an auld eel coo,
ooto the pyoke the stump o a calfie's shank, frae horned hoof tae
3 matches

Aberdeen

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
™s bed. He’d bedd aside the calfie aa efternoon, listenin tae th
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
When is a calfie nae a calfie ask its mam https://t.co/4t8q(2020)