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The word 'rainy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
rainyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11716
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 3
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 20.5 4 4
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of rainy in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
shades o green - except on a rainy day, on page 48

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Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ng strong. It has been rather rainy again, and made the ground ra on page 37

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Oan Sunday shae pat oan her rainy cot on page 115

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Rainy rainy rattlesteens
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Savin up yer siller fir a rainy day, giein aa yer cleys tae c on page 178

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Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
some sewin for me bit, yon rainy days I wis so fed up I sat do
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(South) East Central

Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
uld uise tae descrive it wis "rainy". Weel, as ah nou ken, the be
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Even if it's a rainy day
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Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e’ll cross that bridge some rainy day, hmm?” She leukit aroon
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
Rainy, pishy days like this, we alw on page 4

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Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
empty an huv that night time rainy glow. Stoap at a petrol stati on page 3

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
That rainy nicht up on the moor. on page 110

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Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ingies he must be savin fur a rainy day.
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General Central

White, George Uncle Wull, (Facebook 2024) Central, poetry
yeweys leukin forrit tae some rainy day
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@jax6754 tweeted
proud. Huggggggggssssss fae a rainy and windy Scotland. xxx(2015)

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Tae iverie rainy cloud. on page 38

1 matches

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