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The word 'helly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hellyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.8168
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland 81.4 14 7
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)
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 helly in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gallows Ha - Recipe for a Good Storm, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
and helly shooers. on page 26

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
and helly shooers on page 52

1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
da grief an budder o dis past helly. Da aafil things dat happened on page 153

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - Da Odyssey (1-75), (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, poetry
Sae faar, sin he spuilied da helly broch o Troy.
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
Three cheers for Up Helly A’!
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Cheerio for eenoo . . ., (Shetland Times 2011) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
mebbe mind da onkerry dis Up Helly A’ when Meenie telt wis da
1 matches

@tattooedselkie tweeted
kface should be banned fae Up Helly Aa festivals. Apparently 'his(2021)
travellin hom fir Delting Up Helly Aa, an I wis goin tae bring a(2021)

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
nning sketch fae Uyeasound Up Helly Aa is hilarious ?? It made me(2018)

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
cast where we speak about the Helly Nichts in more detail, and wh(2017)
this penultimate post on the Helly Nichts. One more to go! ????(2019)
ya's Nicht, the second of the Helly Nicht celebrations!(2019)
The Helly Nichts approach us... https:/(2018)

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
Its Lerwick Up Helly Aa danight whar Shetlanders c (2019) twitter link
aabody wha follows me. Its Up Helly Aa daday and I’m sharing/ret (2018) twitter link
@drl Da post up helly aa clip! (2020) twitter link

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