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The word 'eiss'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
eissOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.4344
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 91.6 28 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 eiss in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
hi diplomatic een wint aboord eiss ship tae hae wurd's we thi ca on page 18
an broak thi surface, tae see eiss qweer new sky's, Fyle tryen t on page 27
lavee, so ye kin amagine eit eiss weis thi result. Dassin bless on page 37
it weis theim eit weis runnen eiss feeshermin o thi yeer theing. on page 39
lcy folly't be a drummer. So, eiss prossesicn wis marchen roon a on page 40
Also on pages 46, 47, 48, 51, 57, 60, 61, 65, 67
26 matches

Facebook link ( 2012) Doric - Buckie
so I'm nae a'thoot news, bit eiss groupie is mair at han.

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
cots nor they div in English. Eiss 3rd year quine, in lockdoon, (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
eiss.
the wintir the lads aw pleyed eiss-shintie, an monie o
ger this, the lads likkit the eiss-shokkils at furmed on the hai
uid, sae it dreipit ontil the eiss whaur it
an waantryfe o leivin on the eiss. Aw
5 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Dalquharter (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9559-105-6-2) Central, prose
ed hir the kest o a craitur o eiss an flamb. on page 1

1 matches

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