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The word 'sid'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sidOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.2179
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.2 6 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 sid in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
this malignant sid: wan-time resident o the form on page 7

1 matches

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2021) Orkney
ho bides in that hoose?’ 98 sid ‘whar’ and 16 sid ‘who
‘whar’ and 16 sid ‘who’. I wis interested b

Shetland

Williamson, Christie Slainte Bard, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2014) Shetland, poetry
krap ad i kkaw sid o riam rid
1 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
hae scrievit Ye a symphony Ye sid hearken tae't aiblins Ye nivv on page 3

2 matches

@daleser23 tweeted
ll boys a fuckin gype. I miss sid(2013)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
I says tae Gus, “Whit aboot Sid, he didnae constantly lee tae
tantly lee tae ye, did he?” Sid (Gus’s guid-faither recentl
“Ah’ll gie ye that yin, Sid wisnae intae that mendacity m
y week. Pair o wasters, I ken Sid didnae trust them, Doris disn
i Gus and Doris no long efter Sid had kicked the bucket, Elsie(
6 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
“A couldni’ mind whit ye sid, Sur. Sae A thocht if ye hit
1 matches

General Central

@GMacminto tweeted
Sid be 'plays awkin kind o muisic (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
128/129). Sid Anderson an faimlie fallaed t
tae the best o ma knawledge, Sid’s grandson is nou the ferme
2 matches

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