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The word 'greets'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
greetsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.72516
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 39.9 9 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.7 3 3
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 greets in Corpus

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Orkney

Leonard, Ingrid Northwords Now 43 - Ingrid Leonard, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Orkney, poetry
bell, grim-faced until he greets uis, on page 18

1 matches

Hall, Anja Poosack, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
Pussy girns and greets and pleeps -
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Syne greets ower impty pews. on page 6
e; nae gicin intill 1m fin he greets; nae feedin im titbits'an def on page 62

2 matches

General Northern

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
inte her cardigan. She ayewis greets fin she's happy. Weirdo. on page 91

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
FILE MA ACCORDION GENTLY GREETS on page 158

7 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Dother o the Sea, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric, weans
sea quine's een glistered wi greets. on page 124

1 matches

West Central

Mortimer, Cara Bewaur o th tap tap tap, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
ah can hear is ma skirls and greets. An ah can feel the creepin a
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
The scheme maw comes over an greets me wi a cuddle an slips suhin on page 24

1 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
e a Santa hat jingle-jangling greets me in the corridor. Ah take d on page 14

1 matches

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
smoke an insipid, stale beer greets us like an auld friend. A str
1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Greets for the boat nae mair won ham on page 38

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 73 - Proverbs o Hell, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
A fowth o gledness greets. on page 79
Joy lauchs nae, neither greets Wae. on page 80

2 matches

Facebook link ( 2022) Central
We’d aa be better off an greets wid change intae mair smiles.

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Nae wee greets an girns atween quick dichts on page 77

1 matches

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
t's ma faither in the mornin' greets mi on page 101

1 matches

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
ower the watter as it greets, on page 8

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
He greets the maist whun langin for on page 33

1 matches

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