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The word 'devaul'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
devaulOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.794
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
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 6.6 5 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 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 devaul in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
his engineer's ticket wi nae devaul fur the Bruces war aa clivver
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
uo Mrs Scott, “Bit we mauna devaul. We’ve a heeze o sums tae w
1 matches

General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
l out that something gart her devaul an hae a richt think on it, t on page 15
But still thair mither wadna devaul frae't. Aa at aince Jean bang on page 22
s. Kate haed tried ti gar her devaul frae aa this, tellin her that on page 25

4 matches

Philip, Andrew Lallans 70 - Fower Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
gar the stounin in wir herts devaul, an the deid bide anent us in on page 55

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
We hae ti devaul, an tell ye nae mair, but we on page 5

1 matches

Purves, David Lallans 59 - Five Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chu-I, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
fower seasons lamp on athout devaul
1 matches

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