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The word 'ghostly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ghostlyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.91611
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 2
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
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) 88.3 1 1
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 ghostly in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Then ah'm joined bi a ghostly figure - long white beard an on page 81

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
d appeart atween imsel an the ghostly figir oan the grun. on page 78

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat If I Catch Ye I'll Eat Ye, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
oosie o a sudden they heard a ghostly voice comin fae inside it.
e and waited. Sure enough the ghostly voice sounded eence mair “I
baa. Fin she finished as the ghostly voice sounded eence mair, “
Even wi aa the noise the ghostly voice wiz still sayin, “If
4 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
wee ghostly on page 8

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
e sands o the Broch beach, as ghostly as the aul toon itsel – the
1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
he lookit up an there wis the ghostly figure o her Guardian Angel. on page 80

1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
the days). He picked it up. A ghostly voice said, ‘I’m the ghos
d note, and picked it up. The ghostly voice said ‘I’m the ghost
2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
it wis tellt that there were ghostly fires an fell oorie noises an on page 118

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ey smoke hang in the air like ghostly apparitions, hoverin seemingl
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
Donald's skin turns fae a ghostly white tae a mair human colour on page xvi
. Nae wonder ma hair's been a ghostly white fur years. on page 111

2 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Ghostly ghouls they noo hae fleid, on page 36

1 matches

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