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The word 'day-'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
day-Occurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.587
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 2
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of day- in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Tame Hogmanay, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
ur traditional fower- or five-day-long festival o wild daftness
1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
when it settles doon. If in a Day-the-earth-stood-still type of (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
"A'm been tae a day-schöl tö," said Alice; "du n on page 97

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
"A've been till a day-school, too," sade Alice. "Ee on page 92

1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
been unthinkable, makkin the day-tae-day lives o mony a gey lot
1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
, constructit oot o a kinds o day-tae-day rubbish an a few mair
1 matches

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 71 - Snuffy, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Doric, prose
el, I wis sittin thare, juist day-dreamin like, imaginin aa the
1 matches

West Central

Lochhead, Liz Ashet, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
rday’s left-ower stovies or day-afore-peyday pan-haggis
1 matches

Edinburgh

Sneddon, Duncan Lallans 83 - Biggin Brigs – Nummer 3: Cornish, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
n o thaim that yaises Cornish day-tae-day is like tae be a guid on page 107

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
" th've been tae a day-school inaw," said Alice. "Ye on page 95

1 matches

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
cast oer his abeelity at his day-joab on page 45

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
"Pye been tae a day-schule, as weel," said Alison. on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
en before ah wis relyin oan a day-othe-week pill box tae keep me on page 10

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
he's juist wastit his day-release fae heaven on page 78

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
An the day-daw in your ee, on page 10
An dae your een refleck day-set's lowe, on page 11
The thunner beat that day-suin an nicht-late on page 28
He shauchled like a day-auld cauf on page 58
As rime liggs day-lang in a norward swire on page 76

5 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
airns, child hoors an stervin day-labourers sleepin twal tae a r on page 9

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
"Ah've bin tae a day-skuil, tae," said Ahlice. "Ee on page 93

1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
fur the Girnwud fermer an kum day-licht, hei hed feenisht thum a
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
"A've bin tae a day-schuil, es well," said Alice. on page 95

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Day-dreym oo flight melt in tha su on page 33

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
aw hans that scrubbed laundry day-in-day-oot. on page 29
in the gairden she tended tae day-in day-oot? on page 48

4 matches

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