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The word 'belts'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
beltsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.11312
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 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 2
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 belts in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
generators, lums an conveyor belts. Hit wis aa lit wi thoosans o
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n's shiny sheen; deevin music belts oot fae shop doors; an ootsid on page 43

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
kit oot, biggin lang conveyor belts far skulls an rig-banes an ri
1 matches

General Northern

Coutts, Pete Belhelvie, (bandcamp 2016) Doric, poetry
Wee belts and wheels and muckle graft,
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
p in his chist an he turns an belts doon the gairden, feet batter on page 1

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
l us aw we're tae tichten oor belts. The maist that'll mean tae t on page 54

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
So fine an diverse, belts, buckles, braces, on page 26

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
an regairdit thair opent sate belts. “Na, na, Mr Henderson,”
noo warslin wi thair ain sate belts. “What do I know? I’m jus
2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
, ya bam.’ the cunt sais an belts us, right square in the mooth
1 matches

@johnstone_shane tweeted
Thi bit wherr Junior belts oot a steisher ae a tyoon in (2020) twitter link

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
o different sizes hingin fae belts aroond his boady, and ilka no on page 40

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
man wis a tyrant. She hud two belts, Big Laddie and Wee Laddie, a on page 28

1 matches

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