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The word 'toil'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
toilOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.12719
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 3
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 15.1 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire 32 3 1
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 490.5 3 1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 174.4 3 2
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 toil in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
rminal, on Flotta skilled men toil on page 37
s life wis spent in thankless toil, that Alloway lad wha tilled on page 77

2 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
without fear and toil and sadness. on page 27

1 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
s concerning our work and the toil of our hands on page 24

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
na much regard For her oors o toil on page 15

1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
x cam by eftir his hard day's toil on page 9
dunkey's days were filled wi toil on page 19

2 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
y lik at! We got back tae wir toil gey swith an I says tae Cherl on page 86

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
itizens, and they didnae ever toil fur money. So there really wi on page 36

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Ninety years o toil, gane fae the landscape. on page 81

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
An’ there ye’ll shairly toil!”
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Their lives o toil slipt past atween sleeps in a on page 37
O toil and blame on page 51

2 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
es me nigh oan three ooirs ay toil an sweat tae get it done but
1 matches

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt Tuim Tattie, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
o toil belang
toil sleep, sleep toil
2 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Will we toil ony mair.' on page 10

1 matches

Bleiman, David Lallans 104 - Ae Fond Kush, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
Ah unnerstaun the shoychet's toil, Ah'm no sae sure anent the m on page 37

1 matches

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - Cain, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
A wearie peacefae life o toil, on page 72

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
For aa man's toil, unchaingt, the laund remains on page 27

1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
he wak'ed oot tae haes daily toil, on page 11
Ern'in' his breed bi' honest toil. on page 41
Ah'm free frae evenin 'toil. on page 47

3 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Is yer toil tha fact oo bein? on page 30
I turn back til earthly toil, on page 33

2 matches

Hume, David The Aldfreck Coalmining Disaster, (Ullans Magazine 2012) Ulster - Ballycarry, poetry
ent by the Man Abeen they’d toil
1 matches

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