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The word 'dye'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dyeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.12012
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 27.6 6 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dye in Corpus

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Shetland

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

3 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
would always be - behind the dye - a lack." on page 35

1 matches

Sinclair, James Makkin Hame, (Shetland For Wirds 2018) Shetland, poetry
inderin tae pick oot da moder-dye
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
. He's bin makkin ma buy hair dye fae the chemist an he's aiven on page 13

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
laiss, ower yer left showder. Dye see't yet quinie?'
1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
tie-dye-rainbow slick on page 7

1 matches

General Northern

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - A hame is a hame is a hame, is it nae?, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
hame-made tie-dye glow in the dark claes, on page 34

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
in cried PLATINUM BLONDE HAIR-DYE EXTRA STRANG. This wis also u on page 50
mither's PLATINUM BLONDE HAIR-DYE EXTRA STRANG. She cannily lef on page 53
or there'll be nane left tae dye.' on page 58

6 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
Boys kin dye their hair firey-reid; lassie on page 7

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Boys kin dye their hair firey-reid; lassie on page 3

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ed the wee frae chaunties tae dye wool yella fir sic as the Mac(2020)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
'Whit dye think o the mutton guzzlers a on page 32

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Wunters an haein a wee dance, dye?" says Davie, eftér a wheen on page 23

1 matches

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