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The word 'doonwards'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
doonwardsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.587
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 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) 31.4 1 1
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 doonwards in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
she hed pit e Lizard in heid doonwards, an e poor peedy thing wis wa on page 112

1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
€™ is aa he can say. He looks doonwards wie his grey-blue een and sta
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
the fowk walk wae their heids doonwards! The Antipathies, ah hink-" ( on page 9

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
fae aboot eighteen, nineteen doonwards, finally tae us at the bottom on page 21
ound them. A follow the light doonwards. The pile ae dead flies in th on page 39

2 matches

General Central

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
ots communitie frae the croon doonwards, an encompasst aa sorts o scr on page 59

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
orizontally, they cannae move doonwards inside the TubeTube(!) This b(2020)

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
ae had put the Lizard in heid doonwards, an the peur weethin wus wavi on page 116

1 matches

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