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The word 'attire'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
attireOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7126
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 35.4 8 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 attire in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
t he considered inappropriate attire. on page 94

1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
n, The gowdspink comes in new attire, The brawest ‘mang the whist (2020) twitter link

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Fowk in Simmer attire, a fine sicht
Fowk gang aboot in simmer attire,
Fine, fowk cood be in Simmer attire.
3 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Fowk in simmer attire happy I feel.
See fowk in Simmer attire.
Fowk in Simmer attire feel at ease.
Fine tae see fowk in simmer attire,
4 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
ack Power Walk. Late Georgian attire optional #GentlemanJack(2019)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
roadwey yonner. Hir attire wis aye mair i the eemage o a
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
p in weemen's claes naw men's attire. An bein a big boady wi airms on page 44

1 matches

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