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The word 'finlay'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
finlayOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.4187
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 321.1 7 1
SEC - (South) East Central 14.6 6 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 finlay in Corpus

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Aberdeen

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
"Ay, Finlay's a Hielanman fae Invergordon on page 99
"Och Aye! Baith Rachael an Finlay ir richt blithe for ma help a on page 100

2 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tartan Tourism nae mair, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
o wark. Ane sic body wis Alec Finlay.
Embra-based Finlay, kenspeckle airtist an poet,
Finlay has gaed back tae the Gaelic
Finlay assertit that kennin the plac
Finlay’s forms are a pleisure fir
7 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
Alistair Finlay haes pitten thegither a wheen on page 123

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
flew apen an in boolt Teenie Finlay frae twa doors alang. Neebors
a rair o ‘Ir ye in?’ Mrs. Finlay haed her yungest bairn in her
o Dunfermline wark?” Teenie Finlay shuck the screed afore Annie
’s hae fower.” Tae Teenie Finlay.
Teenie Finlay didnae aunswer. Histry no bei
5 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
free, but no afore young Tam Finlay o Southfield gieq it a stab w on page 38

1 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ive Glasgow Unity Plays. Bill Finlay stertit this darg and Randall
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
Watching auld re-runs o Dr Finlay's Case Book. Brilliant ??(2020)

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