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The word 'explosion'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
explosionOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.62214
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 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 2
NEC - North East Central 91.7 2 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 31 5 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 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 explosion in Corpus

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Shetland

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
, and da hand twitched. In an explosion o snaa, icicle shards an blui
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
osual, cus ther weis a mukkul explosion, fit shot thi tae pot lid, zo on page 9

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
fin the soun o Sandy's verbal explosion fullt the room: on page 31

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
rest said that jist afore the explosion she’d heard somebody rinnin
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General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
EXPLOSION
burned black." Ere wis a loud explosion." "Oh surely
said there wis a loud explosion in their bedroom an, Auld Geo
there hisnae been a explosion in the bedroom for a lang tim
4 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
groanin o timber, an then an explosion o brakkin glass’.
1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair The ghaist lichts, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
tae Italy. She didna hear the explosion. She didna ken the plane haed
is thrapple. The heat aff the explosion haed sort o meltit it intae h
2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
lass landscape. Along wae the explosion ae cheap smack fae Pakistan w on page 89

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Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
intae the room like a nuclear explosion an I covered my e'en. I shoul on page 22

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
an there was a crack like an explosion, the green licht swirlt an th on page 66

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Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
we were staunin. There wis an explosion on board.”
discovert. Than there wis an explosion an the soon o faa’in rock.
- the larry. There cud be an explosion.” She flung on her coat an
The explosion cam at the ilk instant. They
4 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
er back in anticipation o the explosion o gless afore the trolley spl
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General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
ntly, wi nae warnin at aw, an explosion seemed tae tak place inside h on page 57

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Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
tap. A richt beezer. A sort o explosion. He wantit tae blaw awa the w on page 12

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
(A massive explosion aff-stage; shoutin; screamin. on page 35

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