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The word 'selkie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
selkieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.21710
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 2
SHD - Shetland 52.3 9 4
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of selkie in Corpus

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Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
A selkie wis playan wae a muckle snorr on page 90
The selkie comes up fur air on page 118

2 matches

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
r sheu shows us a peedie baby selkie in a geo. The mither selkie w
in a geo. The mither selkie waits anxiously nearby on the
2 matches

Shetland

Watt, Roseanne Moder Dy, (Polygon 2019 ISBN: 978-1846974878) Shetland, poetry
DE SELKIE STEPS on page 32

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
dis Lammas. Du'll sleep lik a selkie. on page 70

1 matches

De Luca, Christine St Ninian's Isle, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, poetry
Sweyn Holm, Selkie Gyo; gied dem bere an kale
1 matches

@tattooedselkie tweeted
e version we grew up wi wis a selkie woman marryin a land dweller (2021)

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
I happened across dis peerie selkie. After a seamless welfare mis(2020)
er o hope for peerie Bunny da Selkie, especially seeing the lungwo(2020)
Squeezed in a quick peerie selkie / seal rescue dis lunchtime. (2018)
Selkie and draatsi (seal and otter).(2014)
Da Selkie was waiting for da fishing bo(2019)

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Velvety selkie https://t.co/SQugpyeOrQ (2020) twitter link

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
ly, tuinfully, the sang o the selkie in'ts bourie whan tides are f on page 3

1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 90 - Sally, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
'Naw its ower muckle for a selkie bit it's sweemin like yin!' on page 59

1 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
och wis buriet atween Skald's selkie skin jaickit an the woollen s on page 14

1 matches

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