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The word 'dallie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dallieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3142
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 36 11 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
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 dallie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
on fur echty, like a wee clay dallie, mouldit, fired an cweeled bi
' she speired movin Betsy her dallie ben the bowster fur fear that
emin. An syne she grippit her dallie Betsy till her an grat fur ra
ay her prayers she tuckit her dallie Betsy inno her bed, an creepi
the fowk o the pairish. Bit a dallie, a horsie, a zither, this he
9 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
bucklit, gowchin oot. Jenny's dallie's pram wis cowpit on its side
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
like a clootie dallie on the en o a booed bedspring
1 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
ngie, at lyeukit files like a dallie an files like a shewin-box, a on page 71

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
'I'll buy ye a bonnie dallie,' mither eence said. on page 51

2 matches

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