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The word 'dine'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dineOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.12718
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 58.1 10 5
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dine in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
ot da naiter o dis flamingo o dine. Sall I try it an see whit ha on page 91

2 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
da muckle hills ir dine as weel. on page 39
's brocht dee, da hoop dat is dine, on page 43
no ta tak a chance. So dis is dine. Whit du gied me A'm haandin on page 105
dis time an aathing I hae is dine. Bit is hit no richt dat we s on page 124

4 matches

Nicholson, James Lallans 58 - Do whit du’s telt, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
"Du doesna brush dye teeth an dine are fine an white." on page 17

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
2 dine yirs on page 57

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
an dine, licht on your wye; a safe on page 105
is happenchance; dine an mine, on page 106

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
The French dine on puddocks - they're nae fa on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Come Dine with Me on page 25
- Huntly's unnser till 'Come Dine with Me' ," jokit Sandy as Vi on page 28
nin doon his face. "Yon 'Come Dine with Me' hisna a look in wi e on page 33

4 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
laughin as they sat doon tae dine on their simple fare. As she
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Fit wye dist nae ae on Come Dine With Me jis nae pop open a ja(2014)

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
ine; time fir aa you bats tae dine. (Silence, syne Bruce bangs a on page 40

1 matches

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
they dine wi their siller teaspoons, on page 31
"Whaur sall we gaun an dine the day?" on page 45

2 matches

@Franwella tweeted
I do luv come dine we me. Lou we nd tae get oors(2011)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
him. Would sooner watch Come Dine With Me.(2020)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Sae he cuid dine on yowe or lamb. on page 34

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
dine any time. on page 103

1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
ht they all come thegether to dine and dance and listen to the m on page 3

1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
it kintras, haein tae wine an dine, gauin tae plays an meetin in
1 matches

General Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
what though on hamely fare we dine" type perspective(2020)