A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'railings'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
railingsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.274
ORK - Orkney
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 10.2 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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)
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 railings in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
urroundit by these black iron railings. Thur auld, really auld. Ye c
Every wan ae these auld rusty railings is tapped wae a nasty-looking
impaled oan wan ae the spike railings. The baw wis defo travelling
the pavillion, the black iron railings blurring as ah ran. And there
4 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
thon patch o grass behind the railings, wi the burn, the swing, the
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
snae surrounded by high metal railings and stone on page 51

1 matches

South East (Borders)

The Westender Loupin Salmon, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
noticed folk standin' at the railings on the same side o' the river
1 matches

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