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The word 'histry'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
histryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3146
ORK - Orkney 59.6 6 1
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
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) 125.5 4 1
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 histry in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
n raffled thir myndeen o some histry intae a kinno culture, partee on page 32
Olaf enjoyed at the skeul wis histry. He kens the warld is noo exp on page 37
rcadia whill aa that bides is histry, staetion gaen tae bruckalaet on page 38
etendan sheu wisno traikid by histry (or faimly, whit's aye the sa on page 73
a demption o noyse, but no a histry, an that wey isno that far fa on page 122
Also on pages 123
6 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 63 - Three poems, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, poetry
Fite-fuskert Paasie spootin histry till’s,
1 matches

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
Teenie Finlay didnae aunswer. Histry no bein her strang pint.
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
"Ye said ye'd tell us yer histry, eh," said Alice, "an how com on page 29

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
Fur, wi aal shae knowed aboot histry, Alice had nae clear idea hoo on page 22
e shore, an A'll tell yae mae histry, an thin yae'll see why a din on page 24
hon, "shae wants tae know yer histry, shae daes." on page 94
diligently tae scrieve oot a histry o the accident, aal except th on page 117

4 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
That ens this odd eventfa histry, on page 52

1 matches

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