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The word 'dialecks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dialecksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus16.6559
ORK - Orkney
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 67 26 3
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 37.2 6 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 26.3 20 2
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 dialecks in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
thfu, fackfu writins in local dialecks, likes o Sheena Blackhall’s
1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
ethin wrang wi steirin aa the dialecks o Scots intil the broth, ding on page 120

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
Scots: Dialecks intae Langage
Dialecks an a Staunart
er" is variants that in maist dialecks wad be "onything" an "efter":
the definitive wark on Scots dialecks, tho no on Scots as a langage
s the phonetics o the various dialecks, an syne A can decide on a sp
23 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
hed in the soonds o their ain dialecks, or that they wis lairnt the
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Dutch an Norwegian wis juist dialecks.
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
nar-dredgin, he favourt Scots dialecks, but wi sum stream-linin an l
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
fack that sae monie separate dialecks are still thrivin in the modr on page 63

1 matches

Edinburgh

Sneddon, Duncan Lallans 83 - Biggin Brigs – Nummer 3: Cornish, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
hat wis i favour o the leivin dialecks wi aw their divergent forms. on page 108

6 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
guistic wark preein the Scots dialecks as hale bannocks. The socioli on page 9

5 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
thfu, feckfu writins in local dialecks, likes o Sheena Blackhall's. on page 56

13 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
e deifferences frae their ain dialecks, but the muckle wirds frae La
1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ie success by mellin landwart dialecks wi leiterarie Scots and the p
1 matches

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