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The word 'dael'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
daelOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.176
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
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 dael in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
tten here is cheust enogh tae dael thir maet an finiesh a teully on page 37

1 matches

Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
t wis tellin folk, helpin dem dael wi it. Whin ill luck comes I
1 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
It wad hae been an aafa dael better, it seem't tae Ailice, on page 64

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
iein Scots Tung mair time tae dael direck wi maimbers, freends a
1 matches

General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
adna cuid manage ti accept or dael wi the chynges. It wis a pros on page 19

1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
I ken a dael o the German masel, says she,
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
he storie gans thit efter the dael hed been settled owre the new
1 matches

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