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The word 'duir'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
duirOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.1273
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 49 19 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 37.2 6 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 duir in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
an yird thaim inablo the staw-duir, as A aye uised ti dae. A ken on page 48

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
en wirds, Tammas onlukkit the duir an thai gaed ower the thresha
roun, bot whan thai apent the duir a smouchterin clud o
nither twasum ruggit apen the duir o the kerr an the
saiconts solempniouslie. The duir
heir ! A maun rin out the bak duir,” shae skirled in
18 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
Robin finnds hir thiggin at a duir, but be-in the kind faither h on page 142

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
s he cam stodgin ti the howff duir, hiz sie-kist follaein in a h on page 3
in at thaim throu the hingit duir afoir he cam inby the spence, on page 4
Livingston's horss cam ti the duir, an he rade awaw; bot the ski on page 9

4 matches

Forde, Iain W D Traivells wi a Cuddie i the Cevennes (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-5-1) Central, prose
A gaed furth frae the staibil duir as ane owse gings ti the slau on page 6

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Swallae and Amethyst (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-1-3) Central, prose
ein Nancie staunnin afoir the duir. The auld frein wes unco lair on page 8

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
on human acks, an ti apen the duir for the intress o ither leivi
1 matches

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