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The word 'eit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
eitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus203.46753
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 633 18 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 2145.1 656 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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) 31.4 1 1
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 eit 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.

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
a moose, ee ken. But do cats eit bats, A winder?" An here Alic on page 10
eedy cake, on wheech e words "EIT ME" were bonnily marked in cu on page 14
E next thing wis till eit e comfits: iss caused some no on page 27
er efter e burds! Why, she'll eit a peedy burd as soon as look on page 29
sade till hersel, "whenever A eit or drink anything; so A'll jo on page 32
Also on pages 38, 40, 49, 51, 66
18 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
shoor eff a perseveert anuff eit sum day a wid get lucky. Onyw on page 1
een o hee's sheyft's. A meyn eit weis aboot ten aclock eit nic on page 4
e got tae thi tap, bit a felt eit weis wurthet, tae help aa thi on page 5
eit er weis a boat on 'o' thi roc on page 6
f," eense wurkit eis a keeper eit, Rattra Heed Lichthoose, an h on page 7
Also on pages 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 55, 56, 57, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 65, 67, 68, 69
656 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
l won, an yaes'll hae tae aal eit prizes." on page 27

1 matches

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