A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'handles'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
handlesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.244
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 handles in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
sh, tough and used fir weapon handles. Embla made o' elm, graceful (2020)

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Shi moves an handles irsel well. on page 84

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
pensive-lookin wood, hus gold handles, a cross oan top o it on page 113

1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
r ?? wae wan of they carrying handles wance when A wuz a Boy, cause(2020)

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