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The word 'festivals'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
festivalsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.3408
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 54.7 5 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 36.8 8 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 281.1 20 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of festivals in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie An onkerry for a kerry oot, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
noch hilarity wi wir ain Yule Festivals.
1 matches

@tattooedselkie tweeted
uld be banned fae Up Helly Aa festivals. Apparently 'his black pal re(2021)

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
Festivals on page 4
Festivals on page 6
e caul. Aire's a wheen o beuk festivals ootthrou the 'ear ina, sic as on page 12
World Heritage Site'. Aften, festivals an shows o licht an soond are on page 13

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(South) East Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Cairryin Stream o Tradeetion, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
gies ye a haill leet o aa the festivals that are on in the comin mont
e on in the comin months. The festivals are o aa kins an sorts an the
2 matches

West Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Rants and Foys, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
These are maistly caaed Folk Festivals, but whyles this can chynge: on page 56

8 matches

General Central

Anderson, Elizabeth Lallans 59 - OBITUARY : ALISTAIR TAYLOR 1928 - 2001, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
ingin, and attended mony folk festivals an concerts, inspirin ithers on page 4

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@jax6754 tweeted
yet the tourists keep coming! Festivals oan? Richt am fed so headin b(2015)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
sts tae yet come roon An thon festivals comin suin! on page 77

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General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
fer mair an baager commonity festivals. on page 8
an' international events an' festivals sim wi' on page 23
festivals. The Airts Cooncil o' Norlin on page 38
tled aa forderin Ulster-Scots festivals langside the Twelfth on page 44
fundin' stream fer commonity festivals an' hes funded atween on page 45
Also on pages 63, 64, 65, 672, 68
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