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The word 'twa-wey'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
twa-weyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.862
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 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 twa-wey in Corpus

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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
wheen uses Scots for tae mak twa-wey crack in thair screivings or on page 7
* wrutten twa-wey speech that uses unstaundart on page 19
e characters as weel as thair twa-wey crack wi ane anither. A love on page 57
Fest - but finnin Scots for twa-wey crack opent endless, new poss on page 58
vel narrate throu Soothron wi twa-wey crack in Shetland an 'Shrooma on page 60

5 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
s-fertilisation wi English is twa-wey and nae necessairily skaithfu
1 matches

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