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The word 'garden'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gardenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus22.17230
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 69.7 12 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 527.5 15 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 2
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 2
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 19.9 15 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 55.6 4 2
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 garden in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
arboniferous era inspired bog garden ????(2020)

Shetland

Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
ta ten, Dad wid be oot in da garden, bendin doon wi his palm on d
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
sat back and enjoyed my messy garden ???????????? https://t.co/XPL(2019)
y froghoppers. I seldom get a garden job finished because all o na(2020)
, den in da sea and noo in da garden wi me ?? http://t.co/YkTQdYnB(2015)
y o feathered visitors tae my garden ower da last twartree days - (2014)
is seeing who is visiting my garden. Just now it's a Robin and 2 (2014)
and 5 other occurrences.

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
g e passage intill e bonniest garden ee ever saw. She wanted till on page 11
e peedy door intill at bonny garden. First, however, she waited f on page 13
either way A'll get intill e garden, an A dinna care wheech wan h on page 14
den key an hurried off till e garden door. on page 16
l in wan piece. "An noo for e garden!" An she ran as quick as she on page 19
Also on pages 38, 52, 73, 74, 75, 82, 101, 102
15 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
rue adventures Concerns Annie Garden's dentures Pairt o her for qu on page 15

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Thursday’s Buckingham Palace Garden Party for The Not Forgotten A(2018)
ening shoppies opening seen? #garden #gardening https://t.co/GMoko(2020)

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
bonnie parks . The 'Botanical Garden', 'Frognerparken' an 'Slottsp on page 16

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
n’t you want to add more? A garden, maybe? A roof? Windows?” T
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
eks time, and I will have the garden ready for you."
1 matches

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
d afore I kent it I was at ma garden gate.
1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
re so we cud go tae seaf beer garden!(2011)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Fittie Bar beer “garden” now open! Tae say Bert is d(2020)

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
HOUSE AND GARDEN
brings blessings to the garden bed.
2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
beautiful game m8 lol - braw garden btw - enjoy! (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ootside by masel in the front garden. Charlene had jist moved tae on page 80
a fritters he's got fae Lee's Garden, an that'll be her, healthy e on page 135
intin the fence or diggin the garden) an she'd hing it oot the win on page 169

4 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
med tae coincide wi the Royal Garden Party at Holyrood, tho the ae on page 105

1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
hed built, fae scratch in yin garden going so upwards n leaning th
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
perimeter fence intae a back garden tae dispose ae the on page 46

1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
nin ma phone licht aroond the garden.
1 matches

Geraghty, Martin 378, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
er off and scrounge in sumdys garden instead. I’ll tell yae how
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
braces and said tae me in the garden, "Ah'm gonnae tell everywan a on page 10

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
at the farm at the back o the garden. 'He hus tae get up early oan on page 14
e hur dog did a shite in your garden. The fire brigade got called, on page 28
stared oot the windae at the garden fence, which wis fallin doon on page 41
before lookin oot oantae the garden, which ah'd filled wi ma fami on page 42
n the farm ah can see fae the garden. Ah didnae hink tae drop Bett on page 45
Also on pages 48, 50, 83
8 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - fower poems bi John Waddell, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
When Eden's garden first began on page 62

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
s rhyme, "Round and round the garden like a teddy bear, One step, on page 56

1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
havnae dug a hole in the back garden......(2020)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
And one can meet folk in the garden. Now I am being o/t and awkwa(2020)
butcher's apron on the corner garden along from me. Distressing. I(2020)

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
the day hen? Cuttin aboot yer garden oan yer funny coffee? (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
sed up ti gane and sit in the garden at night. Jist pt yir sloths (2019)

@officialAliRed tweeted
Wee campfire BBQ in the back garden, fire engine on standby. ????(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
ed tae kickin stanes roon the garden o yer auld pit lodge, wee And on page 78

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
ing Proclaimers from the back garden, it's traditional. Love to he(2020)
Youngest of the red squirrel garden clan cuttin aboot and storing (2020) twitter link
. My da used tae dae Ronnie's garden. Great fella, nice guy, Killi(2020)

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
an went aff at a rate tae the garden dorr. on page 17

1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Tae sit oot in the garden, on page 38

1 matches

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