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The word 'strynds'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stryndsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.9163
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 14.6 11 2
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 strynds in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
an whin I bed in Shaetlan. Da strynds at sinders hit fae standard E
Maest o dis strynds is recordit in Grammar and Us
Dis haes twa strynds - ‘dem’ afore ‘fock’
e wid be trang identifeein da strynds o Shaetlan, an comin up wi st
4 matches

Ayrshire

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 82 - Tecumseh, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
Feckfu strynds o oor fowk? on page 87

1 matches

General Central

Eagle, Andy Lallans 56 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ur, in parteeclar the sindrie strynds o the mither tung. on page 15

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
richt wi its ain tradeetional strynds, an whither the spellins at r
the spellins at reflects thir strynds is like English or no shoudna
a – thay shaw English soond strynds (like the tynin o the ‘châ€
weel-documentit tradeetional strynds is.
4 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
be ti follae the tradeetional strynds o braid Scots. Twa-three exam
Ither strynds o a tradeetional grammar wad
Aa thae strynds – an a fouth o ithers, o co
ht be ti follae the weel-kent strynds o expository English. Gin ye
™) sae ye coud threip at thir strynds is weel estaiblished in writt
6 matches

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