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The word 'skytin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
skytinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5157
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 26.2 8 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 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 skytin in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
hisna bin waashed. It's jist skytin ower ma - fit a bloody waste on page 11

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
he ice an save the breet frae skytin. Minnie's da ained five horse
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
n aside Nava, an jyned her in skytin chukkies ower the watter.
wye, ooto a fake-tan bottle, skytin on each ither's backs an lauc
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ozed aff, an her glaisses war skytin aff her neb, fin there wis a
ed him, skirlin an lauchin an skytin doon the frozen slide that Sn
Doon the stairs they gaed, skytin alang the bannisters on their
umbrellas an skytin doon reefs. Fowk glowered at
4 matches

General Northern

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - Oor Grun, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
The mountain hare, skytin ower the moor hisnae a name on page 88

1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
horss tirnin, an skytin baklins doun the brae.Than th
1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 85 - Archie Dodds, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
ikit kelpies hunkerin-doon an skytin intae the derk glessie glides on page 24
duntin an dangin yin-anither, skytin aff the baunk an rowin intae on page 25

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Spinnin an skytin, on page 56

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
fae skytin stanes abuin it, on page 7

1 matches

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
a, fir leisure or labour, fae skytin stanes abuin it tae skipperin on page 69

1 matches

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