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The word 'naig'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
naigOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.3213
ORK - Orkney
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 36.1 14 2
WCE - West Central 26.6 6 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 naig in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
rby i this yairn the fermer's naig, wha is cryit 'Dobbin') on page 45
lest ava. Saiddil up ma swuft naig Dobbin, an A'l reinge the hai on page 48

13 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
€™m ye maun gang on shank’s naig. Bot gin
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
Afore he munts his naig ti mak aff, the mither derns on page 139
rs o'm ti licht doun frae his naig, he saunts awa. Hir fuit-boy on page 140

3 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
anaw. He cites twa ferlies: a naig staels hey, an a dug staels s
aws us a man wha coffs a braw naig verra chaiplie, but he laerns
s belangt a hieweyman, an the naig’s muivements ir warkit oot
3 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
luid at nocht, spurred up the naig on page 24

1 matches

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