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The word 'dice'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
diceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.91310
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 2
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central 91.7 2 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
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 dice in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
uggar, floor, marg, cut intae dice on page 116

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
"Did du say 'grice', or 'dice'?" said da Cat. on page 66

1 matches

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
My #VoxMachina dice arrived daday!! Dir so pretty (2019) twitter link
rting to get excited aboot da dice coming!! (2019) twitter link
d I love it!! I’d fill it we dice tho!! Whar did you get it?? (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
3 @artcraftcollect Fer speed, dice wi knife, then sharp ice crea (2020) twitter link

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Dice em up and bile them fur sim b on page 140

1 matches

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
A couple o' furry dice tae hing in the front
1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
Pechtish dice spiel
This bonnie wee dice spiel is inscrievit wi “The
2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ll be standin here rollin the dice. Yae see, it's the risk. That on page 30

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
Syne I dice up the kail an the cabbage
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
tterit them on the table like dice. 'A thocht A micht as weel ke on page 45

1 matches

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