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The word 'raed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
raedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.6228
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 12.9 5 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 63.7 6 1
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) 72.7 4 1

Occurrences of raed in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
paepers, an tell me whar tae raed aboot time." Sheu's siccar wi on page 58

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
aa ye write chances at bean raed as bean a commentary on the l
1 matches

Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
eye ower da Orkney squad, aa raed an black track suits, an saa
1 matches

General Northern

TheChielMeister Nae mince in Moray, (youtube.com 2008) Doric, poetry
o' haet caffee, git the paper raed
Doad an' Wully in the Raed Beestee.
2 matches

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ouer again an tuik the tither raed, to the shops an the kirk. It
1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
ter.” Davie gurled. “Jist raed that. Gan oan. Raed
that. Gan oan. Raed
lukked tae hes Mither is she raed oot, “As a gesture of loyal
eed wis a mistak an shuid hae raed a Penny(ld.) no a Shull’n (
4 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
h yir family, an gee them thi raed faces. on page 1
a guid raed-blooded male, hung like a bul on page 4
t fir a livin withoot takin a raed face on page 50
an shi gits raed faces on page 67
raed grouse on page 87

6 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Drivin a derksome raed I scunner on page 40

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
Nae kennin Unnèrstaun Taak Raed Scrieve
Nae kennin Unnèrstaun Taak Raed Scrieve
Cud ye unnèrstaun, taak, raed or scrieve Airisch?
Cud ye unnèrstaun, taak, raed or scrieve Ulstèr-Scotch?
4 matches

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