A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'flowers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
flowersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.91613
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.6 8 6
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of flowers in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Hangin oot wi flowers for a half hour is lik a spa (2019)
Flowers brighten da grey days walkies(2020)

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be uncl
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
t which is decorated in yelly flowers. Course, typical ae him, he b on page 167

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Aw' Scotland's flowers, we must involve,
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
ician pullin oot a bouquet ae flowers. on page 173

1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
s, fizzy ginger, jeely beans, flowers, hearts, chewy toffees an' .. on page

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ere filled wi weeds instead o flowers. But efter ah mopped the floo on page 9
op, in the middle o the park, flowers oan a ride that bobs up and d on page 36
r all people try, no amount o flowers, cards and chocolates can mak on page 86

3 matches

Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
rt, pickin an haundin the wee flowers in a gairden. on page 43

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
er months of Beauty, Song and Flowers; on page 69

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
al name given to various wild-flowers, either yellow or white with
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
Besutiful flowers oot in Edinburgh the day! htt(2017)

South West (Galloway)

Evie OOR WULLIE’S SEASON’S GREET, (Largs Writers Group 2015) Central - Largs, prose
chap there (Tony, who wiz Mr Flowers, A Council Official, nae less
1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Nor wear the Poppy, lay the flowers, on page 28

1 matches

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