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The word 'derby'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
derbyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3149
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 12.7 5 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of derby in Corpus

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Shetland

Williamson, Christie Slainte Bard, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2014) Shetland, poetry
dry as Derby
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
od thirsty fitbaw casual come derby day at Easter Road. Him and a on page 87

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
r and MacDiarmid suggest the 'Derby winner and cairthorse compari on page 95

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
be 2 much but a crackin local derby m8 (2020) twitter link
c @LEAFA_Official a wee local derby wae pencaitland - there yous (2021) twitter link
a wee auld firm derby for me 2 night - celtic v ra (2021) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ers he wis gien money by Lord Derby tae get a pair o widden legs on page 43
he time. It wis the day o the Derby an in thae times, the early 1 on page 71
at the Queen has just won the Derby.' on page 72

3 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
h an’ forced a retreat frae Derby, he treated us aw’ as betra
frae Derby, made oor lang retreat,
2 matches

General Central

@alistairdunn tweeted
madrid derby the night, so much potential (2014)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
tirnin back at Derby on page 24

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
rjo Wheeker! We'll hae aa the Derby folk yarnin in the aul Ulster (2014) twitter link