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The word 'vissie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
vissieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3112
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 14.6 6 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 24.8 4 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 vissie in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
-abuin Dalkeith whaur ye cuid vissie the eisin o Auld Reikie
rled roun ti Dalmenie Kirk ti vissie the
yill on a Seturday an gaun ti vissie a
in Tammas’s motir ti hae a vissie. Richt eneuch, the
in hiz yatt roun the Bass ti vissie the
6 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
vingston cam i the fureday ti vissie the pacient, tuik a bit denne on page 6

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Dalquharter (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9559-105-6-2) Central, prose
didna awnser belyve, fur hiz vissie wes hauddit bi hir faiss. He on page 1
hink it geyan siccar. Ye wuid vissie the bouk o the waws an the ha on page 3

2 matches

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
i wes uised ti fowk cummin ti vissie the wark, bot this day thai g on page 42

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
gits the vissie o the bairns scamperin doun t
1 matches

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