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The word 'chaos'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
chaosOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.52417
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 3
SHD - Shetland
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 1
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 2
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 3
AYR - Ayrshire 39.3 3 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 chaos in Corpus

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Orkney

Sclater, Kathryn Gallows Ha - The chapel by the burn, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Chaos reigns, on page 6

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
amstam ringleaders o noise an chaos. on page 19

1 matches

West, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Steer up and chaos - that's me. on page 74

1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
oose fae; fae the unorganised chaos o Bókin tae the immense Mál on page 12

1 matches

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
Chaos in th kitchn. Becks makin cho(2011)

(South) East Central

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
n tae git in aboot the pit eh chaos they cried a nightclub. The w
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Whilst chaos awaited his adroit hauns. on page 207

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Whilst chaos awaited his adroit hauns. on page 11

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ms sometime soon that further chaos comes aboot. An siccan a gudd on page 11

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
it's fuckin Captain Chaos. on page 8
Chaos At Thi Kale Pot on page 40
now thirs a spot o chaos on page 41

3 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
llos intimate in the carnival chaos o her flea filled bed. on page 33

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
drama and chaos, but really it’s no like th
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ma bedroom. It’s organised chaos—just the way ah like it. Ah
1 matches

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt Red an Black, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
leather pelvis poutit chaos
whan chaos reigns
tae pacify whan chaos reigns
3 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
loert, opin yer chaos an swallaa me haill, on page 66

1 matches

Cameron, Peter Lallans 74 - Cannle-flame, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
the chaos yont the dayset wast.
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
parami @AndrewWilson I did - chaos ensued when ma guidson tried (2020)

@weenell3 tweeted
alf of Scotland. Sounds utter chaos tae me! (2022) twitter link

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