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The word 'homes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
homesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.41111
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 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 homes in Corpus

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Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
fur tourists in thir motor homes. on page 149

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
et strong enough fir building homes. @FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThur(2020)

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
Hiv ye hin a gander aroon the homes (2020)

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
ow the proud owner of several homes (Why no, whan ye've got the d on page 16

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
lang syne gien up for holiday homes – likely they were empty th
1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
se and its warren of streets, homes, and passageways offers a tru on page 9

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
So we're jist shieldin in oor homes, and I mean hames. on page 105

1 matches

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
getting me intae wan ay they homes. The only waiy ah’m leavin
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
replace tartan while watchin 'Homes Under the Hammer', but she wi on page 42

1 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
responsible for covid in care homes but ah'm no gonnae get intae (2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
ng in local affordable rental homes @DGWGO @DGStandard @dgcouncil(2020)