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The word 'nutshell'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nutshellOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 nutshell in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
oogle solves the problem in a nutshell, on page 104

1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
@NeilDrysdale In a nutshell Neil. Maist o my days I’ve b (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
formances bi the actors o the Nutshell Theatre Company, but at the p
The Nutshell Theatre Company will be perfo
2 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ficant. So that wiz him, in a nutshell anyhow.
1 matches

General Central

@Cobradile94 tweeted
Ingland an Americae in ae nutshell https://t.co/mMzaHCAzs6(2020)