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The word 'peeriest'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
peeriestOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5157
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 69.7 12 5
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 peeriest in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
dö ava, an he wisna peyin da peeriest bit o attention ta her or ta on page 43

1 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
be göd fae da owldest ta da peeriest bairn. I sal owerlook dir ill on page 65

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
stive soonds (phonemes) is da peeriest units at distinguishes meanee on page 22
at's laek a vowel (V), so da peeriest syllable in ony language is m on page 27
y o shaeps. If phonemes is da peeriest units at distinguishes meanee on page 38
-(e)st: peeriest 'smallest'; roondest 'roundes on page 44
peerie 'small' ~ peerier ~ peeriest on page 51

7 matches

Watt, Valerie Back tae trowie schul, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
o da twa for wir bairns. Wir peeriest, Gutteryaggle, wis owergeen w
1 matches

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
to nursery daday and since da peeriest… https://t.co/HMwzfuBK2L (2018) twitter link
@drl Same. Our peeriest was asleep within 4 pages o d (2019) twitter link

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
osite gait, an he tyeukna the peeriest tent o her, she thocht he maa on page 76
he hameilt obsair, wi nae the peeriest idaia at he wes jynin in the on page 92

2 matches

General Central

Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
n these days, tae cheenge the peeriest pickle, on page 43

1 matches

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