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The word 'grice'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
griceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus13.6459
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 249.9 43 7
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
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 grice in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
episodes wi fermers an thir 'grice' on page 76

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
Grice an Pepper on page 56
s, "an dat's whit wye. Peerie grice!" on page 60
f du's gyaain ta turn intae a grice, joy," said Alice, aa serious on page 62
ae mistak aboot it: hit wis a grice, nae mair an nae less, an shà on page 63
"Hit turned intae a grice," said Alice peerie-wyes, jui on page 66
Also on pages 92, 125
11 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
rk. He got a job - feedin da grice. Da grice wir better fed dan on page 123

2 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
aɪ /graɪs/ (grice), /blaɪd/ (blyde), /waɪ/ (w on page 24

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Wir grice is hed his day. We'll swee hi on page 71

1 matches

Sandison, Iris Da Tree Peerie Grice, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, weans
ago noo, dey wir tree peerie grice at bed back ower da hill at L
Da tree peerie grice opened up da clooty pockies a
na lang afore da first peerie grice fell in wi Lowrie o da Punds,
o his back an gied da peerie grice joost whit he could kerry.
So wi dat, da peerie grice set aboot biggin his new hoos
25 matches

Walterson, Vaila Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Da nicht afore da Trowie Show, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
lucky meenie’s oo, sooriks, grice-ingans, dockins an even twart
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
think folk used to call them Grice's Ingins here. Pig's onions. (2020)

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie O pigs and dugs: what for dae we treat them sae different?, (Mak Forrit 2024) Central - Edinburgh, blog
er nor she haes paps. Sae the grice, fechtin for nourishment, mic
1 matches

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