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The word 'vicinity'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
vicinityOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.487
ORK - Orkney
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
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 vicinity in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
o 'Mitten' is bön lost i da vicinity o Pitt Lane. If onybody is se
1 matches

Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs Multiple choice voting leaves city cooncil facing, (Press and Journal 2022) Doric, newspaper
drone fit buzzes aboot in the vicinity o’ Feel Moira, fa will nae
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
I jist happened tae be in the vicinity at the time. Cruisin, like. W on page 1

1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
’s ice-cream van was in the vicinity it became standard practice t
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
wis virtually nae game in the vicinity and an empty belly wis aa he
1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
prick being even close to yer vicinity. Geez the artisanal cleaver!â
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
There’s nothin else in the vicinity; nothin but the doocot; that
1 matches

General Central

@OliphantWullie tweeted
hrie villages when yir in the vicinity. Awfy braw. (2022) twitter link