Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'davy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

davy	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	18.1	59	10
ORK - Orkney
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	70.9	16	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	20.3	8	2
WCE - West Central	69	15	1
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	15.9	12	2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	41.7	3	1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)	490.5	3	1
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 davy in Corpus

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General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
DAVY, YER A RICHT LOON on page 141

16 matches

(South) East Central

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
nnt painter in the toon cried Davy wha had a richt serious drink
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
iviFCOfficial awe the best to davy at livvy - need a say more (2020) twitter link
cher as long as ur enjoyin it davy why no - mind dinnae think y (2020) twitter link
@davy_gallacher spot on davy (2020) twitter link
egend o amateur fitbaw - big davy livvys the man - mr mcharg l (2020) twitter link
e_david a dont no how u do it davy - top drawer n defo 1 of the (2021) twitter link
and 2 other occurrences.

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
rs lik Super Ally McCoist, an Davy Cooper, an aboot Mo Johnson t on page 66
da knows; ma da calls him Big Davy Fae The Lawies an it's cause on page 97
Da's pal Davy an his wife had been at Black on page 99
e said, Ah hear your da's got Davy Clark's auld job in the toile on page 100
Big Davy fae the lavvies died ae a hea on page 101
Also on pages 117, 158, 159, 169
15 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
o the whalin lads endit up in Davy Jones' Locker ower the years. on page 41

1 matches

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
@Davyboy612 And tae yersel' Davy... #IndyScotland (2023) twitter link

@weenell3 tweeted
and protection oot the windae Davy wi this lot! Only interested (2022) twitter link
@DavyGavin1 All guid Davy.... car delivered earlier and (2022) twitter link
ae the paying for the Service Davy (2022) twitter link
@DavyGavin1 I got 5 pence Davy... 10 pence on a guid day ??? (2022) twitter link
ken how tae dish that one oot Davy ???? (2022) twitter link
and 6 other occurrences.

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
whan Tam Reid telt Davy Hume on page 53
Davy Crockett played the fiddle: on page 58

3 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Oor Davy - A Tribute on page 2

3 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
'Davy Leary his a machine on page 6

1 matches