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The word 'myle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
myleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.9165
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 99.8 8 2
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 myle in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
licht an eit cood be seen fur myle's on page 7
ked keyna veice, "Aboot fower myle auf o Slain's Cassle." Noo, o on page 47
is belten along eit seevintee myle an oor, an claiken aboot oor on page 65

4 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
thon warks, monie a myle o guid dray-stane dyke bene s
r rummilt alang an wi iverrie myle Tammas’s sirkent spreits
-gabbit, tho. Eftir twa-thrie myle, Mirren inquered o
3 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
k last night doon at that San Myle in Tollcroass.
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 73 - Ten Owersettins frae the Chinese, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
An ilka Back End myle Ah gae on page 38

1 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
aes aff himlane for a thousan myle.
t wund blaws frae ten thousan myle.
throu a thousan myle o deid gress.
3 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
mebbies threi myle owre the hills i onie airt, a
1983. Ae myle or thar aboot ferther doon th
Manse wis aboot ae thrid o ae myle up the Manse burn frae the ha
ch road, aboot ae fardel o ae myle doon frae the Burnfit sindrin
4 matches

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