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The word 'skyrie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
skyrieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.83212
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 23 5 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 21.2 16 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 skyrie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Fairbairn, Jamie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Banff, newspaper
caird. Watergaw Village is a skyrie wee place, nae muckle fowk th on page 37

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
led her tae the pegs far the skyrie plastic peintin
bricht n’ skyrie. Johnny wad makk her a Junk j
2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Skyrie. https://t.co/Gsv2FuB2sZ(2019)

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 67 - Twa poems bi Douglas Kynoch, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Doric, poetry
like a splyter of skyrie lantrens; on page 63

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
urs o yows in snaa an bowls o skyrie flooers, fan, on a suddenty,
1 matches

General Northern

Diansangu, Mae Tales Fae The Doric Side - My Faither's Fowk, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
is the skyrie-tonguit leid on page 36

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
a dowlesslie follain a muckle skyrie thingie, at lyeukit files lik on page 71

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
thocht. A ken hir Mither’s skyrie test
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
its nou charactereisticallie skyrie praisentation an byordnar air on page 3

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
tin 17 (Ay!) byordnar an unco skyrie issues o the magazine, frae N on page 6

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 82 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Prestwick, prose
n in 'Scots Teegars' we get a skyrie luik at the warld throu the e on page 7

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
pravity Among Animals’ is a skyrie ane. The’r an epigram, frae
1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
aw acoonts, Scott wes an unco skyrie cheil, ferr-kent for his even
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
Skyrie, the watter flowes oot fae se on page 28

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Skyrie an dowpless, on page 16
a skyrie infeenity o us on page 62
The skyrie caunles o the staurns on page 64
Bi the burnie's watters, skyrie-seelent? on page 72
Ma skyrie boy, ma anely saul on page 78
Also on pages 98
6 matches

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
nd glowert aroond them in the skyrie mornin licht. Aye, it wis the on page 6

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Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
nd rubies and sapphires. This skyrie bird seemed faur mair bonnie on page 102
e Emperor hummed alang wi the skyrie bird while he lay there. He k on page 104
e clockwork bird by his bed. "Skyrie bird that I aince luved, smoo on page 108
ror tellt the wee bird. "That skyrie bird widnae sing! I'll brek i on page 110

4 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
cordin tae Ewan McVicar. This skyrie gallimaufray is muckle mair n on page 129

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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
e Windaes wabsite. It leams a skyrie licht on a hantle o Scots lit
important, hooivver, tae mak skyrie clear that the existence o si
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
€˜this buik’ is feenisht: a skyrie reference, it seems, tae Mari
ruar 2021, it aims tae leam a skyrie licht on and celebrate the tr
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
kens whaw's bocht a muckle an skyrie British History magazine in W on page 23

1 matches

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