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The word 'football'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
footballOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus38.712416
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 278.8 109 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 28.1 2 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of football in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
ely restricted tae comedy and football. Still Game or Tam Cowan’s
1 matches

Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
e 5. #doric #teucher #london #football #aberdeenfc https://t.co/wWfx(2020)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
er @AberdeenFC I’ve outgrown Football Manager and Panini stickers, (2021) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
how that community spirit and football do certainly coincide as one. on page 113

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
100 Favourite Scottish Football Poems, ed. Alistair Findlay, on page 123

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
n theres a lack oh grassroots football for me to watch n ma mississ (2021) twitter link
@BBCSport no longer the best football league anyway - call it now (2021) twitter link
alSLFL @KeltyHeartsFC amateur football teams can play 3 games a week (2021) twitter link
hem - its both thats ruining football - it wis douglass ross n the (2021) twitter link
t be deterred from watching a football match outside - ps good luck (2021) twitter link
and 92 other occurrences.

West Central

Sands, Finn THE GHAISTLY FITBAW MATCH, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
ess up as his aw time favrit, Football Hero.
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
that's it. Perhaps a game of football on the ash park afterwards. on page 57

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
n reason. He loved boats, not football. He grew up in London, and fu on page 10

1 matches

@_Erinboyle_ tweeted
" Football related disorder " is inaccur (2021) twitter link

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
music and musicians? Why does football get prioritised? What about v(2020)

@LowEndJardo tweeted
down tae london tae enjoy the football wae ma pals, it’s all I coul (2021) twitter link
im av ever been n aw ma retro football tops finally fit me so silver (2021) twitter link
What a day ae Scottish football, delighted to have it back (2021) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
@IamJustChillin0 Nae even a football? (2021) twitter link

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
that they know as much about football as my erse knows aboot snipe on page 33

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
Yin fur the #football folk an the new saison: an au (2014) twitter link

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
hell yeah! They used to play football matches just behind oor wee h (2021) twitter link