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The word 'engleesh'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
engleeshOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.793
ORK - Orkney 59.6 6 1
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
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)
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 engleesh in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
es’s novil “Iss” – in Engleesh, the taitl maens both “us
s spaeks an aksentid Standard Engleesh most o the taim, bit swichis
spaekan at’s rot in firmil Engleesh – is at “We must speak as
tae rait daiälog mostlee in Engleesh, onlee yeusin Orkney wirds an
cadian” tae mach firmil rot Engleesh: Orkney speleens, Orkney wird
6 matches

Shetland

Nicholson, Hannah Da Wye At I Spaek, (self-published 2021) Shetland - Brae, poetry
Da fokk at tell me tae spaek Engleesh
At Engleesh is as pure in origin
2 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
the desk, "we charging forty Engleesh pounds." on page 7

1 matches

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