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The word 'flats'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
flatsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.22017
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 27.1 5 4
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 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 flats in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
or's balcony in the high rise flats o the Hen-Hoose, fite flags f
1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
haed been parkit ootside oor flats for wiks on eyn. We cudna see
n binoculars tae gaap up at e flats wi.
2 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
plug the laddie fae upstairs flats sky box in tae the bar withoo(2016)

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
n comin hame through the high flats. on page 1

1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
t” tae yin o the new Vennel flats in Lithgie High Street and at
1 matches

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 59 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
is noo gien ower ti flats. on page 129

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
s a bit further up an it's aw flats an nane ae them's got a lift. on page 142

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
on the thrid flairoa block o flats, whaur they were served guid
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
arrive ootside the bloack ae flats oan George Street. Ma mooth f
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
in hame or on tae elder wans' flats n gaffs. Me n the boys walk u on page 31

1 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
n the tap flair o a block’a flats when he left mi - jist oot f
ifed themselves in the middle flats (where the cunts couldnae bre
2 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
bay windaes ay the grun flair flats, checkin oot the gaffs. A bet
1 matches

Geraghty, Martin 378, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Thirs 378 flats in the three blocks. 378 vera
1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
a hoose divvied up intae wee flats let oot tae workers o aw kind on page 136

1 matches

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
the livin rooms o respectable flats, aw emotionally owrewrocht, a on page 40

1 matches

McNulty, Victoria Hame, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
White lines tae damp flats
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
n that hud donkeys, noo thurs flats on page 47

2 matches

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