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The word 'garage'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
garageOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus17.55629
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 47.4 4 1
DOR - General Northern 35.4 8 5
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 23 9 3
WCE - West Central 32.2 7 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 87.3 7 3
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of garage 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 I phoned up the nearest garage - they wid send someen doon on page 41

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
swallows are back...open the garage door' on page 65

2 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
an beelt it up tae da thrivin garage he haes da day. An Sylvia fan on page 11
he can pit a new sign ipo da garage, sayin John Thomson and Sons. on page 12
ta New Zealand, an he bocht a garage in Christchurch wi da money h on page 46

3 matches

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
is checkin da oothoose an da garage.'
1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
Phoned da garage yisterday ta git snow tyres, (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
t, eence ye've tidied oot yer garage an yer laft, life seems rale on page 85

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n Ah'm up te ma een. Ess is a garage, ye ken, nae a bliddy taxi se on page 52

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
cosy garage. Warm an snod they fell soun
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
yone ken i' a latchie opening garage fit sells floeers! https://t.(2017)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
ordon wye. His da wirked in I garage. So yi can imagine I state o (2019)
tin on yon turbo trainer in i garage. Been geein a blast ivvry noo(2020)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
speirt at her gin there wis a garage thereaboots an could Ah maybe on page 104

3 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
lang past, an he hid a Timpo garage set, wi petrol pumps an cars
1 matches

General Northern

Wheeler, Leslie Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Doric, weans
Hoose, hip-hop garage or gweed aul rock an roll. on page 13

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
His quine wiz in the garage on page 172

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
ere wis the basket abeen the garage door so he cood
doon tae the garage, tae see the mechanic tae see
2 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@Ali_Leith Picked van up fae garage nae even a gee going in that (2020)
ye he wis chasing mi roon the garage(2020)
ie ither side o Ythan aye the garage is a hoose noo(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
her place & reversed into the garage first time I thought to mysel(2018)

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
JULIE: Garage. on page 1

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Garage Doors
[NOTE: image of the garage doors with painted saltire in
n the Honest Toun beilds this garage door frae the wather. Is thon
come hame tae? Daes ony ither garage door mak sic a guid statement
4 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
y ian and kevin - top dollar garage m8 - happy tae give the lads (2020) twitter link
ys n drove the car in tae the garage - ffs it wis priceless lol (2020) twitter link
@Neillyf88 garage across fae me in elphinstone (2020) twitter link
landFA if the bars open in ur garage al pop along m8 lol (2020) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
r his bowfin second-haund car garage, Matilda jinked intae the lob on page 24
k again. Mibbe his day at the garage hud been mince, and he hadnae on page 32
rand siller-makkin day at the garage! Ah've got a few wee crackers on page 54
! Ah cannae gang doon tae the garage and sell motors like this! Ho on page 57

6 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ould go aw the way tae the BP Garage wi a note fur fags an bread a on page 81

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ve fae below the quarter open garage door. Ah pull it open tae a s
1 matches

General Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 58 - The Dumb Jyner, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
eam coaches an the Jag in the garage o his braw big hoose. No tae on page 65

1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
lego structure.. Think it's a garage?.. Hope yer day gets better M (2022) twitter link

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
a cheeky rose plantit in the garage. Am pacin masel tho, coz itÂ’(2020)
wee buckshee stowaways in the garage. Nae idea how ah missed thum (2020)

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
Wannae help me clean oot the garage gorgeous? Coffee an chocolate (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
THE GORDON ARMS GARAGE on page 40

2 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ei drove the car intil it’s garage an
e the stick hoose, anenst the garage, an is shei
retoured back past the garage door, wi hir airms fou o eldi
the garage, “Whit tyme is’t, kis Aâ€
4 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
e You like floors oot safeway garage kirst. #sillyjamie(2019)

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
's contents poured aintae the garage flure. on page 10

1 matches

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