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The word 'gravity'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gravityOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.93312
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 2
SHD - Shetland
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 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 20.1 4 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 19.7 15 3
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 gravity in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
the sensory-seutid low-gravity raves apae Olympus Mons, cuit on page 82
o Astrid's silence haes aafil gravity, an so the conversaetion is f on page 84
ody at's mibbe growan anither gravity. Tae bide, an hopp sheu's cha on page 104

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Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Gear, Grory, Gravity, Gumpick, Grid on page 11

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Giles, Harry Josephine An Excerpt From Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Future Fantasy, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Orkney, poetry
aert o her silence haes aafil gravity,
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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
i flaaless skin, lang legs an gravity defyin breests stared up fae on page 81

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Aye, bit still... gravity jist disna affeck men in the on page 69

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General Northern

Bolland, John Tales Fae The Doric Side - Hadean Eon: 4.5 Billion Years ago , (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
space, gravity an bosons, hadrons, baryons, on page 82

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(South) East Central

Allan, Alasdair Lallans 102 - Defenestration, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
wad be oot ayont his centre o gravity, ayont the distance his finge on page 89

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
As the centre o gravity shifts eastwards an the numme
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
tters ower time, the centre o gravity o Scots speakers micht creep
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West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Newton's Law of Gravity on page 143

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Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
cam’ awa’ in his haun’, gravity accelerated the descendin’
in this battle the favourite, Gravity (Isaac bluidy Newton’s goat
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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ge; black holes wae their ain gravity pullin at me, an he stares ri
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Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
spersed wae loose escarpment. Gravity aids ma descent an each leapi
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Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
forward, keepin his centre ay gravity low, graspin at weeds an expo
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Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
bastarn dug bears its teeth, gravity pullin at its slebbers, formi
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General Central

Mackintosh, Jim The Banes o the Turas, (Tippermuir 2022 ISBN: 978-1913836313) Central, poetry
There's the centre o gravity, no here yet on page 41

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Morning, Carey Neeps and Tatties, (self-published 2020) Central, weans
Gravity's somethin that nae wan can a on page 33

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
y sizes claucht in its wechty gravity. Forder oot fae Jubiter is Se
r the comets bides. The sun's gravity dwynes thareawa an syne we ga
aes hae a magnetic field. The gravity is jist ower a third o the Yi
amang the cloods. The actual gravity o Venus is aboot 90% o the Yi
the sun. It haes ane-saxt the gravity o the Yird an this is whit we
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