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The word 'estates'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
estatesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.91913
ORK - Orkney
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
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of estates in Corpus

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General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
an cooncil estates in 1 gloamin. on page 10

1 matches

TheChielMeister Oatcakes 'n' Cheese, (youtube.com 2009) Doric, poetry
Git ma milk roon' tae Moray Estates
1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tartan Tourism nae mair, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
bed auld castles, oor shootin estates an oor touns as bein infused
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
es that roost on their muckle estates arenae that fond o allooin fr
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
were bein turnit ower tae big estates devoted tae huntin, shootin a on page 82

3 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ys on wan ae the new Legoland estates. He's another tall cunt, but on page 8

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
mpbell o Cessnock forfeit his estates tae the Stuarts for his suppo on page 66

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
vation, wi gydit veisits roun estates an fykie explanations bi thai
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth The killin fields!, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
dedicatit tae it; the shootin estates e’en proscribin tae thirsel
o gemmkeepers fae the private estates oot at nicht on the bens whan
it jalouse the true aim o the estates is tae hae nae hares at aw on
bein trappit an shot on thae estates as weel. The gemmkeepers mich
ither beasts wha bide on the estates, it’s an aw-roond killin sp
5 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
fechtin wad succeed tae thair estates free o the ordnar dues an pey
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
bade on is herd fur Buccleuch Estates i Ropelawsheil. Jockie, i
1 matches

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
by dumpin’ em intae council estates and taste their new way o’ l(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
folk fae Belfast. New cooncil estates filled wi "blaw-ins" laein Be
1 matches

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