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The word 'freckles'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
frecklesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.795
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 freckles in Corpus

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Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Three freckles past a hair. on page 83

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
fur his ginger hair an orange freckles an his bad taste in ties an f on page 34

1 matches

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
eckles681 A bit damp here noo Freckles... And cauld.. Aye, all's fin (2023) twitter link
knocking the Lego intae shape Freckles... :) I was right intae Mecca (2022) twitter link
And aw' the best tae yersel' Freckles... ?? (2023) twitter link
e tae look on this as a bonus Freckles... Just wish people would lea (2023) twitter link
hat's the hoosework done here Freckles.. Just wait for the fitba' no (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
freckles pu'd tae the fore bi the ever on page 156

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
y’s face is al spreckled wi freckles an she has a blond bob that h
1 matches

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