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The word 'angle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
angleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.62219
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.9 5 4
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
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 angle in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
ween the ooter Nordren Fed an Angle colonies is that closs tae cl on page 74

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Giles, Harry Josephine An Excerpt From Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Future Fantasy, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Orkney, poetry
fer Chryse wis ower gowd an Angle
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Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
t until they had enough of an angle tae tilt it up and drag me oo (2022) twitter link

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
He finds the richt angle on page 54

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General Northern

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Ootlin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
her airms an legs at a funny angle, an her heid, oh God, she hid on page 60

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Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
top. He turned at a 90 degree angle an stairted gan up the drivew on page 76

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(South) East Central

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
t it might gie me a different angle on things.
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Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
d there wis an animal cruelty angle.
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Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
wis jist the right (or wrang) angle, it’d be pierced right thro
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@VFSportsPix am coverin every angle noo - sose naebuddies safe l (2020) twitter link
@DicaculusManiac interesting angle on things on ur statement bro (2020) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
cularly when he wore it at an angle wi his gallus checky jaickit on page 24

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Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
nalism and scrutiny fae every angle. A want a campaign tae educat
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Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
white trainers. Fae a certain angle he resembles a domino. And th
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Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
f the brutal sharp light. The angle ay the saft wan casts shadows on page 3

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Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
dae it underairm, at an acute angle, staunin in close tae the waw
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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
arnock bunnet set at a jaunty angle on page 68

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General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
sklent tae a maist uncouthie angle. It wisna an embarrasment tho on page 135

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Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
r. It sklentit doon at a stey angle. Deep and mair deep ablow the on page 18

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
that the 'face' aw lippens on angle an licht. Still an on, the or
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Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
ane an wis seen tae gae at an angle conter tae the bigger ane. Ab
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@bigandymccoll tweeted
at neabdy wis there. Bet that angle willnae be covered though. No (2022) twitter link

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