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The word 'doricphrases'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
doricphrasesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus41.91398
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 81.7 25 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 492 111 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 doricphrases in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
“@ride_the_north: @DoricPhrases your are on our FB page! http(2014)
fly cuppie an a funcy piece! #doricphrases https://t.co/qrx49zxKUC(2018)
can ye guess fit those were? #DoricPhrases https://t.co/AlrEsis5sO(2018)
'erstn fit ah scrieve on the #DoricPhrases #Twitter page! #doric(2018)
“Och aye the noo!” #doric #doricphrases https://t.co/n1PrwUDQii(2019)
and 6 other occurrences.

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@248Steve @DoricPhrases Ats mochit! Needs ti be een o(2019)
st gype iss side o i border. @DoricPhrases #doric #Aberdeenshire(2019)
@fitabootit @DoricPhrases Fa? Bingo fae yon Banana Spli(2019)
@deesidedon @DoricPhrases I kint fowk at workit at Tomm(2019)
@Manuforti1968 @DoricPhrases Fit rare.(2019)
and 9 other occurrences.

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@Manuforti1968 @DoricPhrases Toasting fork oot efter batht(2020)
@Manuforti1968 @DoricPhrases 240 volts ti yer toasting for(2020)
@DoricPhrases Are ye on a bike?(2020)
@DoricPhrases Get a barra min(2020)
@Manuforti1968 @DoricPhrases A wis affa teen wee the yalla(2020)
and 3 other occurrences.

@Franwella tweeted
@DoricPhrases I mak ma tattie soup we a bit(2020)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@Historic_Ally @FaeFoggie @DoricPhrases @sadie_d_ryan I did see ah't (2019)
@DoricPhrases Got a guid deal on tyres fae (2020)
@DoricPhrases it's fly time an e customer h(2020)
@englishtainment @DoricPhrases nae seein' "skitter; Doric; t(2019)
@DoricPhrases Finally ah'l ken fits be'in s(2019)
and 97 other occurrences.

General Central

@gordimhor1 tweeted
@DoricPhrases It's Scots no slang(2019)

@billykayscot tweeted
b @scotslanguage @LairnScots @DoricPhrases Ilkie word - a dawdle.(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
/eW9PoMqD3H #Scots #ScotsEdu @DoricPhrases @doricdialect https://t.co/1N (2018) twitter link