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The word 'cobwebs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cobwebsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.71211
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
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 cobwebs in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
So they gather stoor and cobwebs in a cupboard oot the back. on page 44

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
an the cobwebs knit on page 7

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Sunday stroll to blow away da cobwebs and stretch oot da spaegie af(2018)

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Cobwebs - aul an some new - deid fl on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
fresh air in te blaaw awa the cobwebs, bit ere's ayewis some'dy caa on page 45

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
he cellar covered in dust and cobwebs. The Laird hid in his hand a
1 matches

General Northern

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Ootlin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
ld I dee? The winda wis foo o cobwebs an stoor so I couldna see tha on page 60

1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
up the beach & shack aff the cobwebs fae last night. Dinna ken fit(2018)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
erdog. Aw, ah git it noo, the cobwebs huv been removed, if yae pard on page 21

1 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
mage wid flash in her mind ae cobwebs and clasped hauns, but any ma
, whose claithes wur spun fae cobwebs. A weird whistle emanated fae
2 matches

General Central

@OliphantWullie tweeted
Dysart wi the wind blawin the cobwebs awa. (2022) twitter link