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The word 'lightning'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lightningOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3117
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
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
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
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 lightning in Corpus

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Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gallows Ha - The Weather Dance, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Thunder, lightning, sunshine and shower, on page 29

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Thunder, lightning, sunshine and shower, I haad on page 155

1 matches

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
Thunder and lightning here daday and da heavens hiv (2018) twitter link

West Central

Clark, Thomas Yes Nae Mair, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
rain, wi torn white flashes o lightning through their centres so's ye
1 matches

Dundee

Matthews, Lily A SPARK O INSPIRATION, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
The puir lassie git struck by lightning, struck doon deid. When they
assie? The lassie murdered by lightning? Nah, ah had tae dae it. Ah h
he lassie brought tae life by lightning.
3 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
onner und Blitzen (thunder an lightning) an cryin the enemy sodjer an on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
rattle of thunder, a flaff of lightning and the rain blattering doon. on page 3

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
...a great lightning amongst the Clouds, which wer
or his description o “forky lightning frae a cloud” an syne a ‘
2 matches

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