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The word 'shoolders'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shooldersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.965
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 3
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 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central
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 shoolders in Corpus

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Orkney

Sclater, Kathryn Gallows Ha - The chapel by the burn, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
wi heavy shoolders and a heavy hert, on page 7

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
d great muckle chips on their shoolders and they cam wi some gey fanc on page 42

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
e wight o the world is on his shoolders. He finds Mother in the backh on page 39

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
t, when she realized that her shoolders wir naewhere tae be seen: aw on page 51

2 matches

Ayrshire

Meikle, William Overheard in a Cemetery, (ABCTales.com 2004) Central - Ayrshire, prose
. There he wis, sittin' on ma shoolders wi' his wee blue and white ta
1 matches

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