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The word 'sundays'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sundaysOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.61512
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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 sundays in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
uld ever hear dee in a mont o Sundays." An hit wis true, for dey wi on page 57

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
r wik-days an a funcy ane fir Sundays." on page 63

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
fur the Bruces, comin hame on Sundays tae get their sarks washed an
een that she wore fur best on Sundays.
2 matches

Aberdeen

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
The lest fower Sundays hid bin nae baud for Farquhar on page 97

1 matches

General Northern

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
mither wis awa. Sometimes, on Sundays, during the lang stretches (f on page 14

1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
We also discovered that on Sundays a travelling chip van frae Ca
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
e right - its double time on sundays - so double the fines - tim (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
them aamaist aye spent their Sundays thegither ben the wee parrock
On Sundays the’ war nae wark. Brakfast
2 matches

Ayrshire

Meikle, William Overheard in a Cemetery, (ABCTales.com 2004) Central - Ayrshire, prose
thoot wan noo. In fact, maist Sundays ah don't even get as faur as
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
wa o them usually spent their Sundays thegither in the wee loanin a on page 6

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
d kail soup tae their supper. Sundays were a bittie better. They aw on page 5

2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Sundays, reddin oot the sheughs an cu on page 77

1 matches

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