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The word 'skate'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
skateOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4118
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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) 131.3 4 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of skate in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Whit a blether skate thoo are. on page 6

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
Lerwick chippy again efter a Skate supper there in 2008 gied me (2020)

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
a skate's purse tight as a nut, but f on page 21

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Bit I love halibut an skate. on page 98

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
osts aroon Renfrew, an on the skate board ramp in the Robbie Park on page 131

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
trust scotland, the daft auld skate, on page 5

1 matches

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
i winter wonderland and hev a skate aboot.gud fun #hohoho(2012)

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
he saed, ‘but ah'm goin tae skate doon the brae. Save the rest
Skate doon the brae, ah thocht. Jen
brae, ah thocht. Jenny cannae skate doon the brae, ah thocht. The
Grove, but yince ah seen her skate doon Greenland Crescent, an s
4 matches

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