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The word 'deesel'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
deeselOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.482
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 46.5 8 2
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
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 deesel in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
"Du ocht ta be ashamed o deesel," said Alice, "a muckle lass on page 17
lar, soondin faerce. "Explenn deesel, lass!" on page 44
better feenishes da story for deesel." on page 75
o sayin it - 'Never du tink deesel no ta be ony idder as whit id on page 92
"Du ocht ta be ashamed o deesel for axin sic a simple questio on page 96
Also on pages 121
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I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
2 deesel (informal)/yirsel (polite) de on page 58
ive pronouns hae a lang form (deesel, wirsels, etc) an a short on page 95

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