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The word 'reikie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
reikieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1106
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 reikie in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 67 - Leddy Stair’s Closse, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Wha'd lately cam til Reikie Toun, on page 141

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
cuid vissie the eisin o Auld Reikie
Nisbet’s howff wes laich an reikie. The pett brunt slawlie i the
hamewith ti Auld Reikie, an the ying twasum awaw ti r
eities o Nyow Orleans an Auld Reikie,
4 matches

General Central

Philip, George Lallans 56 - Scotsoun Thereanent, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
hat fair gied a shog tae Auld Reikie wi his byordinar poem The Daf on page 46

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
nt as Dr Bonum Magnum in Auld Reikie, wis stoatin fou efter a nich(2020)
e it on the Fergusson’s Auld Reikie album sung bi Rod Paterson. h(2020)

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
fair fou wi the wyne. The reikie
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
an Reikie noo a caldrife place on page 27

1 matches

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