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The word 'dwine'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dwineOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71913
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
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 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 2
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 6
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 dwine in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
slowly dwine, hit's dat specific; naethin on page 31

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
we can only see ee wye, dwine on page 39

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ither the meen. The stars wad dwine an the Midgard Sarpint wad co
1 matches

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
nor beauty’s dwine.
1 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Dother o the Sea, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric, weans
ae nae sowels. Fin we dee, we dwine intae fite faem that is naeth on page 120
ddin yer hairt'll brak. Ye'll dwine aa inno faem that's pure naet on page 121
s waddin day. She wid dee and dwine intae the faem that wis naeth on page 125

3 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
It wrung ma hert tae see ye dwine.
tae dwine and dee afore yer time.
2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
able at the stairt, began tae dwine awa. Fowk got uised tae the l on page 47

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
The Cat's heid stertit tae dwine awa the meenit he depairtit, on page 44

1 matches

Lehane, Matt Gif I was, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
aa evangelistic supremacy wad dwine in temporal purgatory
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Eemis Stane 2 - The Ploom, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, poetry
There's bairns that dwine and bairns that thrive, on page 6

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
On him that his vibrato dwine on page 61
n tho ma ploys tae dreichness dwine, on page 79

2 matches

Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Sune tae dwine in the airth that has borne h on page 43

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
a suddent and stammygasterin dwine in pey and a lat doun in pric on page 69

1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
dwine and dee.
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
oivver, jist as Gaelic didnae dwine awa completely efter bein owe
1 matches

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