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The word 'restless'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
restlessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51514
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of restless in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
They wir aafal restless sleepers - and hid meed me t on page 59

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Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
tness, twartieness an his awn restless virr fer the botts an the Lig on page 118

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
table leg wi her heels like a restless shelt.
1 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
es war clouds o hingin yalla. Restless birdies war flichterin up fra on page 51

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Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Eck wis gettin a wee bit restless, he thocht we cood be in the
1 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
blaw, blawin' fairly maks ye restless yersell. Aye, it on page 30

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MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
mt th' night awa'. Up tae th' restless laddie wha hid is his feet in
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
shFA @scotgov eos fans gettin restless noo a c - bit late is it no (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ridor. Passin the rest ae the restless natives who are still strande
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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
o the hous, he cuid hear the restless scuffin o the cou; sensin the on page 22

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General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
he church was full; folk were restless and the bairns footered and w on page 3

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
heid erect, nithing restless, inconstant there - on page 35

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Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
I wis restless the night I lost Lugs, and I
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McNulty, Victoria Hame, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
The grass was greener for restless he
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South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
Oot ower the restless watter, the gulls glided hame on page 25

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