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The word 'nite'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
niteOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus26.58810
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 17.7 4 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 131.6 54 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 63.7 6 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 13.1 10 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 162.2 13 1
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 nite 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.

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
ec yer looking quite tall the nite Dec! x(2011)
slay @ErinM2907 hame th morns nite @LouiseNicol1(2011)
uiseNicol1 No, nae games last nite. Feels gd tae feel gd. How wi(2011)
a organised fir the games the nite. Am affa jealous.(2011)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
sselburghU al b in the area 2 nite guys walkin ma dug lol (2020) twitter link
@AfcTranent is this 2 nite guys (2020) twitter link
lmeron n fraser were decent 2 nite al but joe linton did nothin (2021) twitter link
earned the right to b there 2 nite - get out and enjoy the game (2021) twitter link
ian_Pacey lookin forrit tae 2 nite wae the crazy crew - bring i (2020) twitter link
and 43 other occurrences.

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
should sit doon ti rite thi nite on page 3
Guaranteed ti fuck up yir nite on page 7
ah on thi same nite, on page 9
Thi mist his jist set fir thi nite on page 60
Shiz oot again thi nite on page 62
Also on pages 69
6 matches

Glasgow

Geraghty, Martin A Bad Sport, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
yi…kept hinkin’ aboot the nite. She’s gon oot,’ he says,
1 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
ir takin the calories fir me! Nite nite fae Scotland! X??????(2015)
w day begins tomorrow! Nichty nite awe! ? xxx(2015)
Time fir sleeps! Nite nite awé fae Scotland! X ??(2015)
k tae check yir availability! Nite!??X(2016)

@WhenDidADidny tweeted
olid 40 mins in comeback no37 nite. Mighta been rustier than som (2018) twitter link

@raiphsays tweeted
Ats ma da awa oot wurkin a nite shift in a “very specific an(2020)

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
t hen. Askin ye if ye fancy a nite oot is like askin if a bear u (2022) twitter link

@weenell3 tweeted
Obligatory toilet fotie on a nite oot ?? (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@cammyrudkin tweeted
@gavzo Full o shite b nite e mean ??? and sleepin in eer(2020)
@jamieginger173 E rinnin the nite ginger twat?(2012)
75 wot time e feenesh up last nite(2012)
Monday nite and am STILL graftin away #na(2012)
sholmIain yir rite. E oot the nite?(2012)
and 8 other occurrences.