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The word 'ish'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ishOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51512
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
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 ish in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
nd soonds pretty Central Belt-ish a lot o the time, and much o
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Only 360 ish more sleeps til da next Shetl(2014)

Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
Hud on...I'm 47(ish) and just found oot that the (2020)

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
dIt Moor Park across the road ish wis where mah Uncle n Auntie (2021) twitter link

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
hai cuidna swik the hempie ti ish but hiz
1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
ae oor ain goverment. A Sco’ish goverment,” Annie sayed.
Is that no spittin in Sco’ish folks’ faces, eh? Whan did
2 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
And yella-ish like Orkney cheese. on page 46

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
'Ye mean it isna ho-ho-ish ony mair?' said Wee Grumphie on page 42

1 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
waw. When he'd made a muckle-ish hole, he crowled through it. on page 63

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
tae Canada. Lumberjack in Bri'ish Columbae. Coohaund in Alberta on page 16

1 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
with a glottal stop (eg. Sco'ish instead o Scottish) in her sa(2018)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
and plooms in the mou stushie-ish stramash aboot it.(2020)

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
@AidanReilly6 aboot £170 ish(2012)

@officialAliRed tweeted
rns are in bed. House is tidy(ish). Time for a wee cycle afore (2020)