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The word 'davies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
daviesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2149
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 72.7 6 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 davies in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
scrubby bit o a knowe far the Davies grazed their stots, risin up
1 matches

(South) East Central

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

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
bertmdaws freddie parrot face davies - taks me back lol (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
n hud ma cousin, Stacey. Bill Davies is a lawyer, Glasgow Uni grad on page 37

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
t up a place, because Charlie Davies is aheid o me, and he's getti on page 7

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Clay davies frae Cuchulainn's isle on page 50

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ody in mind o warks bi Norman Davies: 'Europe: A History' or 'The on page 110

1 matches

@jamieonkeys tweeted
), if it wisnae for Russell T Davies there wad hae been literally (2021)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Davis, whae wis sib tae Miss Davies (sei
maimorie sers mei richt, Watt Davies wis
wheen yeir n’. The Davies’ flittit frae Girnwud tae H
his fermer maun hae been Miss Davies’ uncle. The storie gans thi
han dain ae hey-tyme fur Watt Davies it Girnwud; hei hed been
6 matches

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