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The word 'wordie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wordieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3149
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of wordie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
I'll seen get a wordie that goes on page 15

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2013) Doric - Buckie
dinger an evry time a type a wordie it makes up ain o its ain an

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ell_86 Aye it's a right rural wordie.(2015)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
Though Bella wad offer a wee wordie o advice noo an then. Ah myne on page 74

1 matches

General Northern

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
an Airchie wint oot ti hae a wordie wi him. He wis real gioco tha on page 8

1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
_begg @colinclyne @AberdeenFC Wordie tae yer mither brither!(2017)
@hairyollies wordie oan the lane is yer a fan o' (2015)
m an awfa big fan o' ye. Thon wordie oan the street is Ye ken't th(2015)
e, @Sandi_Thom a've hid a wee wordie wi thon DJ @johnnydee72 ower (2015)
thon Welsh fella Tommy git a wordie edgewise?(2015)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ablow. This pamphlet is weel wordie o a read.
1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - Review Lang Syne in the East Neuk o Fife, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
st bocht thegither. Baith are wordie for linguistic and historical on page 54

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - review, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
yth't in prent. The beuk is a wordie memorial, but it wad be a hae on page 109

1 matches

General Ulster

Ni Chuilin, Caral Roadin furtae Bring Forrits an Graith tha ULSTER-SCOTCH Leid, Heirskip an Cultur, (Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 2015) Ulster, government
ultùral heirskip, the'r weel wordie o kennin an hainin tha wye we on page 11

1 matches

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