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The word 'willow'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
willowOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81611
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 2
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.9 5 2
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 willow in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gallows Ha - A Spell o Good Wather, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Strip the willow will do the trick, on page 31

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
we sailed through 'Strip the Willow', I heard a nesty 'rip' on page 4
nd then - ah'll be thin as a willow - on page 19

2 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Strip the willow will do the trick on page 157

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
hit. A willow basket shaepit tae a back, on page 31

1 matches

@HazelTindall tweeted
wis aside Ciaran Hogan, Irish Willow basket makker.(2019)

North Northern B (Caithness)

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
ot tae be an Orkney Strip the Willow ??(2021)

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Fae Strip the Willow tae the Lancers He kent foo t on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
tap wis a fork wi a boorach o willow boughs that fowk caad the thu
1 matches

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
@LouiseNicol1 Willow ate it??! Jist thru Perth x(2011)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
eans "the river meadow wi the willow trees" frae "sauch" the Scots
ae "sauch" the Scots word fer willow. An Saughtonhall comes frae t
2 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
ot aa day wiring in tae young willow, aspen and cottonweed. This w
rs like tae redd up the young willow tae hae tae their supper. Afo
or fish, while the now robust willow stands provide habitat for so
3 matches

General Central

Kelly, Anne Social Dancin, (self-published 2003) Central, weans
Or Strip the Willow doon
1 matches

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