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The word 'peerie-wyes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
peerie-wyesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.8222
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 127.9 22 2
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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)
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 peerie-wyes in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
l, as shö guid sweemin aboot peerie-wyes ida watter, "an shö sits pur on page 22
So shö cried efter him, peerie-wyes, "Moose, my Joy! Come du back on page 24
nd een, an reckin oot ee paa, peerie-wyes, tryin ta touch her. "Poor pe on page 41
y richt, I doot," said Alice, peerie-wyes; "Some o da wirds is gotten a on page 51
uist managed ta curl him doon peerie-wyes intae a boannie-laek zigzag, on page 53
Also on pages 54, 55, 57, 59, 64, 66, 67, 74, 75, 82, 91, 113
19 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
grit-grand-faider dis time. Peerie-wyes on page 84
while you lift hit up peerie-wyes on page 111

2 matches

De Luca, Christine Love in a Caald Climate, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, poetry
peerie-wyes. Na, hit wis
1 matches

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