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The word 'orbit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
orbitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1104
ORK - Orkney 59.6 6 1
SHD - Shetland
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of orbit in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
er, undeeman anunder, bund in orbit ahint the Deep Wheel, the Hof on page 31
ion: tae bide in this coothie orbit, or git enogh o a pin tae fli on page 104
staedy. He haals thaim intae orbit ahint Orcadia. Darling's grip on page 121
e kent a planet's elliptiecal orbit, seasons an a almanac, Noo th on page 126
l, til ivry escaep is anither orbit, an ivry orbit anither still, on page 163

6 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Clyde-built satellites in orbit keek on page 92
wey up thare in geostationary orbit on page 137

2 matches

General Central

Eagle, Andy Lallans 62 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
the station’s ninety meenit orbit daesna tak it tae a lattitude
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
whan ye birl in yer ain orbit on page 46

1 matches

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