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The word 'collapse'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
collapseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5168
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 collapse in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Mrs Clushet o Faaldydykes, (McStorytellers.com 2018) Doric - Banffshire, prose
rs Clushet, near in a state o collapse, her hypochondriac’s mind s
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
up the bank near in a state o collapse. Her clyse were soakin aweet
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
. Ah fear ah'm jist aboot tae collapse oor the table but revenge is on page 81

2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
Ath @JakeMoyes1108 surprising collapse fae the burra second half tbh (2020) twitter link
erdays man and the party will collapse with him in charge! (2021) twitter link

West Central

Davidson, Alistair The Mitterand Plan, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
up lairge debts tae prevent a collapse i the vailye o their currency
l spivs i the wake o complete collapse. It didna an canna unfankle i
2 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
Ah collapse in a pitiful mess and before
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Attemptin tae get up, ah collapse again. Ma back keeps bucklin
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah put the bag doon an collapse oan tae Scanlon’s couch. â€
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
gar the lot collapse on page 47

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
year, but it is an astonishin collapse in jist a few years for Labou
rotten hoose made o widd, the collapse haes been sudden, but is a re
2 matches

McClurg, Fernando Tae see oorsels as we see ithers, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ifficult tae get a haud o the collapse o the Labour pairty benorth t
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Where Dae Ye Catch the Bus Tae Sarajevo?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
nd then, sweat lashin aff me, collapse intae the unreserved seat wae
1 matches

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