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The word 'wies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.2172
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
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) 441.7 5 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 168.7 12 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of wies in Corpus

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Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
They shaped bricht wies they'd trevel yince they leed on page 26

3 matches

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
ther, wae iz wuntherin (baith wies, whiles), tae regalate the wi
, whiles), tae regalate the wies an woes o mankine, frae Killa
2 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
nerschips, relationschips an' wies o' waarkin tae tak' the leid on page 7
bae a consistent qualitie o' wies o' production an' design. on page 18
' diversify the expertise an' wies o' waark o' thon curn. on page 29
ce at shudnae mak' the differ wies o' spellin sim on page 31
nerschips, relationschips an' wies o' waarkin tae move the leid on page 32
Also on pages 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 72
12 matches

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