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The word 'placie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
placieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.6158
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 36 11 6
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
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 placie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
fa eesed te bide in the neest placie fin they war aa bairns, slipp on page 75

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
them an reestit richt ower e placie far e bairnie wis lyin. They on page 8
icht, on e fowk att sat i the placie o e shadda o daith, a bricht on page 10
daith. An fan they cam till e placie ca'ed Calvary, they crucifiet on page 119

3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ad. The craftie wis a nochtie placie, a wee roch patch in the ithe
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
it weel an they'd heard o the placie in a sang.
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bob the Dog fae the Bog, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
the left sayin he’d fin the placie he wiz seekin aboot haaf o a
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
putten its poo intae pyoke an placie it aat waist hicht for somebi(2017)
e traveller convention takkin placie neist year. Ye shid ging - ah(2018)
Aat’s affa sad. It wis fine placie tae ging fur richt guid denne(2019)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
in At wis Inverurie. Nice wee placie(2019)

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Widney’s Fuil, (Mak Forrit 2017) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
ven sometimes forget that the placie exists. But, ‘at disna mean
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
instead they lookit fir a new placie tae bide on page 157
Doon to i'placie I left uptoon on page 159

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
Middleton, the fairmer o the placie. We sat aff frae hame on a Su on page 51

1 matches

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