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The word 'rae'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
raeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.91311
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 5
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 rae 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.

Orkney

Brown, Moyra Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
John Rae, a huge deid man, wae a gun a on page 29

1 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
s muckle as I can dee tae see rae] fowk in iss licht!" on page 92

1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
Alex piggin Rae what an insult(2020)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
or n a hauf then am poppin up rae ma uncle jimmys at mayfield f (2020) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
hike a tigress stalkin a wee rae-deer. Rupert suddenly became on page 142

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
rae keep oot the cauld.' Yet gie on page 117

1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
oun ower Fraunce. Ye wad need rae flee tae Fraunce in ae meenit on page 27
'It is a braw thing rae hae haen a freend, even gif y on page 77

2 matches

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
ither and the ither sows used rae croon an auld sang o which th on page 6

1 matches

Keaveney, Marcus Lallans 102 - Haiku, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
Tha rae lowp on page 29

1 matches

astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
yon smith it Tullibody, Davie Rae’s wife and the Miller at Me
“Davie Rae’s wife, Janet Coklay didnae
2 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
streets bi her pals. “Netty Rae’s gettin a man’s bosilla”.(2020)

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