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The word 'clowns'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
clownsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.61511
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 20.3 8 4
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of clowns in Corpus

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General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
e didnt mistakenly go to that clowns(2019)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
drink here wae these pair ae clowns. No long efter we first start on page 67
w. No that either ae they two clowns are too bothered aboot a pint on page 104

2 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
there were trapeze artists an clowns an acrobats... He wis havin s on page 98

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
rlequin design in Send in the Clowns. In Liquidation, paintit ower
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
sters - do you always employ clowns lol (2020) twitter link
d plonkers like yous in it - clowns oh the highest order lol (2020) twitter link
ss get feckin in there - the clowns fae the twilight zone r oot - (2020) twitter link
lockdoon - but half the elc clowns shood b locked up lol (2021) twitter link

West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
ldnae figure it when the same clowns took on the Enbra Tram Projec
1 matches

@MizLiot tweeted
thae ‘women won’t wheesht’ clowns an I’m embarrassed that a br (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
as a fuckin circus wae these clowns. A on page 33

1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
on ben there - there's fower clowns sittin on their dowps haen a on page 37

1 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
o’ SNP. Cannae support these clowns in WM!(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
For carnaptious clowns or Pokemon, on page 41

1 matches

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