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The word 'strayed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
strayedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.587
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 strayed in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
His Celtic shirt hid somehoo strayed intae the damned machine. on page 25

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine St Ninian's Isle, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, poetry
Hit hed ta be a saint at strayed dis far nort
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
fae the workin class, ken? Ah Strayed awey fae the pact. Cos ah'm s on page 47

2 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
s Little Red's fault that she strayed fae the path, on page 32

1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
h in an redd up onything that strayed aff the covers. on page 21

1 matches

Morning, Carey Neeps and Tatties, (self-published 2020) Central, weans
he sun gaed doon and he never strayed. on page 26

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
ns, young an oul, an if a han strayed onywhere sooth o the equator, on page 44

1 matches

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