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The word 'monkeys'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
monkeysOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.1177
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 32.7 10 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 monkeys in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
t the nicht before, three wee monkeys came tae the door; yin wi a f
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
full o ivory jumbos, braisse monkeys, an sic like. Fin it rained i
oom, tae plsay wi the braisse monkeys an the ivory jumbos. There wa
mbos. There war three braisse monkeys, aa stukken thegither. Ane hi
d 'Hear-nae-evil'. The middle monkeys hauns war ower its moo, an it
wye that Minnie kent that the monkeys war furreign, fur God saw aat
5 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
hett day in the zoo. Even the monkeys war plottin. Jessie the Jumbo
Jessie watched him halve the monkeys oxterfus o bananas. The monke
oxterfus o bananas. The monkeys ruggit aff the skins wi their
w the morn,” Kevin telt the monkeys , “An it’s bin that hett
4 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
he circulation gaan. ‘Bress monkeys would be gey unxious’, Ah t
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
y r the zoos closed - plenty monkeys oan here tae fill them - emb (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
monkey teddy cause she likes monkeys but they aw either had banana on page 154
they don't lock her up wi the monkeys. Soon as he said that, ah rem on page 162

2 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 73 - Ten Owersettins frae the Chinese, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
the monkeys girn thair dule. on page 38

1 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
The monkeys girn dulesum abuin.
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
When monkeys mak mair sense than yir mithe on page 35

1 matches

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