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The word 'floors'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
floorsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.82213
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 105.5 3 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
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 floors in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Tidies bedrooms, scrubs the floors, on page 23

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Too long hayur wae floors an glittur on page 98

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
k pilgrim's wither'd wreath o floors Pluck'd in a far-off land. on page 6
oot amang those beds o bricht floors an those cool fountains, but on page 11
ice looked all roond her at e floors an e blades o gress, but she on page 40

3 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
thers niver saw – the yalla floors that happ the funeral pyres o
1 matches

Thain, Gianna Far Shaddas Lurk, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
Put doon floors. Harsh reality. And the wifeâ
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
re wisna ony point in plantin floors noo because that nicht some o
1 matches

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
There wis little bit floors for the bees on page 14

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Poppin up quicker than floors on page 195

2 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
They brek ma floors an steal ma fruit,
the floors; an certes, sir, it's true
ma floors are spindly things, an few,
The floors aw flourished by thirsels,
the floors wir iver fu o bloom
5 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
There are floors and floors of folk below him. Some of th on page 15

2 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - fower poems bi John Waddell, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Wi bonnie birds, an trees, an floors, on page 62

1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
cturs, fine furniture, bonnie floors in vases, a welcomin stove. Y

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Her beauty like a floors perfume on page 22

1 matches

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