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The word 'glottal'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
glottalOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7127
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 12 9 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of glottal in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
h voiceless glottal fricative /hɛɫɪ/ (helli) on page 26

1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas A Scots Pairlament?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
for ower lang; droppin aw oor glottal stops, pittin on the phone vo
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ans in the past tense or usin glottal stoaps (like "unsettl't"), an on page vi

1 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
ial eneuch tae hae spreid the glottal stop, for instance, outower t on page 9

2 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ch, trauchle, nicht, etc. The glottal stop is whiles thocht ti be c
nes disna (I dinna speak wi a glottal stop ava.) For the kynd o con
er, butter – an say it wi a glottal if ye like. For a conservativ
3 matches

Mackintosh, Henrietta A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
y that Gaelic is ‘a feat of glottal acrobatics… imbued with pas
1 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
nafyfe pronounce words with a glottal stop (eg. Sco'ish instead o S(2018)

@LairnScots tweeted
s link fir information aboot 'glottal replacement' an how assumptio (2020) twitter link
@sj2915 Wear yer glottal stop wi pride! Check oot @acc (2019) twitter link

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