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The word 'cinema'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cinemaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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 cinema in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
mair. I suppose gjaan tae da cinema an theatre wid be maist splen(2021)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
rd moment fin ye ging tae the cinema tae see a Wardle War Twaa fil(2019)

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
must hae seen it done at the cinema. It happens in real life. Ee on page 40

1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
olence, as aabody kens Is the cinema's formula. on page 18

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ey acroass tae the auld state cinema in Great Junction Street. A r on page 87

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
es than in the back row o the cinema lol (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
wis meant tae be gaun tae the cinema wi me, but ah never even got on page 153
said, Gone out for burger and cinema at Braehead with Karen and Da on page 169

2 matches

General Central

@LairnScots tweeted
fir bairns at The Hippodrome Cinema in Bo'ness, featurin a screen (2019) twitter link