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The word 'skirlie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
skirlieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 skirlie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
enner o tatties an chucken an skirlie, aff he wad gyang wi Whigmale
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
93 Hud i bus. Fit is iss noo? Skirlie pizzas?(2019)
oth Lanarkshire I teen ma ain skirlie doon. Fine oatmeal, oat flake(2019)
istmas, shed stuff een end wi skirlie and sassage meat, breadcrumbs(2019)

Aberdeen

Leslie, Dawn Press and Journal 2023-12-02 - Doric Corner, (no publisher recorded 2023) Doric, newspaper
fir anither roon o her famous skirlie an trifle (te be served separ
en... mebbe wi aa iss spikk o skirlie and trine, Ah could jist aboo
2 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Wi loads o' skirlie tae mak ye fu on page 114

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
ant tae gae back tae a diet o skirlie, sheip'sheid broth, limpet st
1 matches

West Central

Lochhead, Liz Ashet, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
(never ever cryin that skirlie, nut ata,
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
'Geordie"' cam the skirlie voice fae the nixt room. 'Wha on page 25

1 matches

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