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The word 'scenery'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sceneryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81613
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of scenery in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
aboot Skara Brae or wir bonny scenery - on page 59

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
gain as I was focussed on the scenery not the plot :)(2014)

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
hoos daday #cliffs #Shetland #Scenery #sea #coast https://t.co/uziy (2018) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ar as ye cud see: harsh, bare scenery bit wi a beauty in its bleakn on page 21
Jist takkin in the scenery. on page 24

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
zens, as muckle a pairt o the scenery as the kittlin groomin its cl
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
erdeenshire wi such beautiful scenery. https://t.co/9Bm8ZMIGi6(2016)

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
enjoyed the scenery, sna still on the hills up be
scenery an haein a richt lazy time. E
sinister place, affa stunnin scenery an it wis easy tae
3 matches

Chapman, Henry , (Facebook 2018) Doric, poetry
ssin’ the history; ‘n the scenery tae share,
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
d Library next fur a change a scenery, either that or Johnstone. Ma on page 169

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
It's thi scenery on page 85

1 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
dwam, watchin the scenery flee by. Woods in autumn colo
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
wrate a buik cryed Celestial Scenery, or, the Wonders of The Plane
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - The Stert ae World War III?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
The scenery here wis stunnin, sunset o’
1 matches

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