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The word 'cley'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cleyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus82619
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 52.4 4 2
LAL - General Central 18.6 14 10
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 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) 88.3 1 1
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 cley in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
The moulboord slicks the cley on page 120

1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
s. Bit I like the wet squidgy cley. An chuckin it in the middle on page 1

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
mesis, Montgomery, had feet o cley. Glesgy Screwdriver? Catch Ia on page 99

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
cley-davies an humphers o hudds,
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
hurin eftir eidols wi feit o cley. The flumgummerie o lectronic
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
h waa, an a bank o heavy grey cley tae stap up the cracks an kee on page 50
earthly bounds o their mortal cley, may their sowls forever rest on page 54
e time tae time tae cover the cley flair o the biggin, bulk oot on page 56

3 matches

Neill, Willie Lallans 61 - Three Tales frae the Brithers Grimm, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Ayrshire, prose
t in the neuk o the mercat wi cley crocks!" said her guidman. "N on page 42

1 matches

General Central

MacKinnon, Ann Lallans 70 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
tae howk ower a cley bit grund. on page 61

1 matches

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
road - mind, whaur the auld cley pits on page 100

2 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
t sae ye're no draggin in ony cley." on page 22

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
owre meh fuddilt cley on page 67

1 matches

Cameron, Peter Lallans 58 - The Cornfields o Lowdie, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Tae never see they cley wherefrae I was taen. Nae cla on page 47

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
in the dubs an cley o baittle. on page 35

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Flittin In, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
thit noo wis platches o haurd cley in the dry wither an glaury s
1 matches

McGibbon, Joe Lallans 74 - Draps o Sapie-Bubble, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
In ma early boyhood, white-cley pipes wur uised;
Haufweys hame I drappit the cley,
2 matches

MacMinto, Gregor The Magic Brainch, (wordpress 2021) Central, blog
unner times as muckle.’ The cley davie heared their confabble
gin on the chap. By times the cley davie flitted it till his hoo
2 matches

Fyall, Aitken Lallans 74 - Rabbie’s Retrospeck, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
r Lord, jist uise this mortal cley,
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
hit wis kent is the “cat an cley” preenciple; an thar
ae cley-pipe an whan sittin, ay, ae g
2 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Hume, David The Aldfreck Coalmining Disaster, (Ullans Magazine 2012) Ulster - Ballycarry, poetry
frae the glarry cley corner o his lan;
1 matches

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