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The word 'eer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
eerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus58.519411
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 65.4 20 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 203.7 79 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 106.2 10 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 968.9 80 3
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 eer in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
he wis wae is for a couple o eer efter that, an I niver hid an on page 21
rachle that comes roond every eer, on page 86

3 matches

Mid Northern A

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
bairn, an fan she wis fifteen eer aul she pit her tae service i on page 84

1 matches

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
ye'll see yer intended twinty eer hence Mine - you micht be st on page 15

4 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
She bade wi her man for syven eer efter their mairrage, an syne on page 83
his wark, he wis aboot thirty eer aul, bein as they thocht, e s on page 84
ijah, fan for three an a half eer there wisna a drap o rain an on page 86
ahaud o bi deils. For monys a eer, he'd gaen aboot nyaakit, niv on page 94
is gairdner, 'Leuk, for three eer A've socht fruit on iss tree on page 104
Also on pages 113
15 matches

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
Bit sixty 'eer ago and mair on page 29

1 matches

General Northern

Innes, Brian P. Tales Fae The Doric Side - Thochts o a Teacher, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
Ye see, I wis intae ma second eer, an at that time wir Science on page 50

1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@ajmc1066 if eer efter a skinheed al - am yer (2021) twitter link
@ajmc1066 u caw canny n keep eer chin up n get eersel well big (2020) twitter link
hut the front door brother - eer a legend n sose every body th (2020) twitter link
@ashwilsonauthor if eer makin eer debut gees a shout m8 - ee c (2021) twitter link
tick a cadburys creeme egg up eer j (2021) twitter link
and 70 other occurrences.

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
DY wis brocht up in Dundee an eer syne he wis a student in Embr on page I
side their breid is buttert. Eer syne the bribery o 1707 that on page 17
siller eer comes in on budget, it likely on page 36
EER SINCE THE Brexit vote, it's b on page 53
ck fae Westminster (an A mean eer syne 1707, check the figures) on page 81
Also on pages 83, 116
7 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
it wis a weel-kennt fact that eer syne the nineteenth century t on page 50
o the dragon-like cratur, an eer since it haes had the name Ma on page 80
weaty Betty, tho naebody wuid eer hae daured tae say it tae her on page 100

3 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
tae lang; an that, if ee cut eer finger awfy deep wi a knife, on page 12
et, Ah wunder whae'll put oan eer shoes an socks fur ee noo, de on page 15
w ower wi fricht. "Oh, Ah beg eer pairdon!" cried Ahlice hastil on page 21
"Ah beg eer pairdon!" said th Moose, frow on page 25
ous. "Whit else hae ee got in eer pooch?" eet went oan, turnin on page 27
Also on pages 28, 30, 33, 37, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 56, 58, 59, 67, 69, 72, 76, 78, 80, 81, 89, 90, 93, 101, 102, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 117, 118, 119, 121, 123
62 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
valley wis black wi treis on eer ker haund; frae Elrig Dipper
on eer ker haund, juist efter ee gan
Makkin eer wey doun twartis Harden Glen,
3 matches

@cammyrudkin tweeted
ite e mean ??? and sleepin in eer van maist days in the middle (2020)
@StuMcCulloch aye eer certainly big onyways #eweras(2012)
e!! Stop usin the excuse that eer savin up for the holiday #eer(2012)
@Bulla7 @aidanreilly6 traced eer bare feet e mean #pishheed(2012)
pburn @jamieginger173 aye bit eer a midget vet #wee man(2012)
and 10 other occurrences.

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