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The word 'bedtime'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bedtimeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41813
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bedtime in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
doon da hill rodd just afore bedtime. Dan da keetchen door wid cra on page 93

1 matches

Nicholson, James Lallans 58 - Do whit du’s telt, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
Bert wis eight an hit wis his bedtime. on page 17

1 matches

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
s asleep within 4 pages o dir bedtime story (2019) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n the chunce te bide up by is bedtime. on page 86

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
fir anither sleepy seat afore bedtime. Ma soaps ir oan bit the soun on page 46

1 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
At bedtime's oncome makin manes. on page 8

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
d for a tradeitional story at bedtime. The lave o the pamphlet is t
ee pamphlet haes eneugh for a bedtime story or juist a cutty read f
2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nMusselburgh is it no past ur bedtime - mr negative lol (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
atrice cud hae duin athoot at bedtime.
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
tae go! That's well past yer bedtime!" Oan various pretexts they a on page 32

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
iled the streets after dark n bedtime. on page 38

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
e think o onythin tae say. At bedtime, they tossed and turned aw ni on page 17

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@jax6754 tweeted
Hae a nettle cuppa tea before bedtime next time as sleep is almost (2014)
vening?. Richt reading before bedtime! xxx http://t.co/aDZXfaYMXX(2015)
n eve, so time fir some light bedtime reading! Guid nicht twitter!?(2015)

South East (Borders)

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
n-chiel Dennis Oziri tellt us bedtime tales in Pidgin; Uncle Ali, a
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ree lik the wumman o hir ma's bedtime tales, the wumman who lived o on page 51

1 matches

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