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The word 'slums'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
slumsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.585
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of slums in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
cry frae the near-haun urban slums that war still caad the Hen-H
Hoose' tint aa meanin fin the slums wiz bulldozed bi government d
2 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
in her Glesga slums. on page 4
in Glesga's Toonheid slums on page 33

2 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 74 - I Hae A Drame, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, poetry
gang back til the slums an ghettoes o wir norlan ceit
1 matches

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
e Paris, they cam in thro the slums at St Denys, they said, an so on page 76

1 matches

General Central

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
rauchlesome life o the Glesga slums kythes here in aa its fu fric on page 127

2 matches

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