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The word 'wedge'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wedgeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.586
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 3
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)
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 wedge in Corpus

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
r U.K. attitudes, thin of the wedge these wallopers may be, but, (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
licht fae it spreads oot in a wedge that fades awa tae nothin owe on page 1

2 matches

Hubbard, Tom Scottish Faust: Poems and Ballads of Eldritch Lore, (Kettillonia 2004) Central, poetry
On aither side o the wedge atween the weys:
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ltaneously begins coontin his wedge. Like some soartae veteran ba
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah wedge the hoardin open wae ma fit a
1 matches

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
Hus Daniel stolen a wedge fae Geoff?! That's Yasmeen's (2020)