A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'dai'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
daiOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3103
ORK - Orkney 79.5 8 1
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 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 dai in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
ney aksent bit tae drap a the daiälekt wirds an adopt Standard
This is komin enof tae hae a daiälekt wird: “chantan”. Fo
hantan, as maigraeshin sofans daiälekts.
yeusd tae tak aboot thir aen daiälekt yeus. Fok deu hid, kons
shislee, atween langwachis an daiälekts an registirs (whitiver
8 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
o Archie. . . or is that Guru Dai - quiri?’ ah sais, smugly.
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Mail Order Catalogue is, Jai Dai Williams catalogue
1 matches

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