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The word 'pairs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pairsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.32721
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 3
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 pairs in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
, the bell thay'd gang tae in pairs; here, the Haa whar the wynds on page 61

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Mallimaks sit singly or in pairs on page 16

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine An Excerpt From Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Future Fantasy, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Orkney, poetry
the bell thay’d gang tae in pairs;
1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
oot fae there, noo aboot 100 pairs, self sustaining, doing grand(2020)

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
tree examples o short an lang pairs is: on page 28

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
hoped) a fan an two or three pairs o peedy white kid-gloves: she on page 32

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Twa pairs o big broon een leukit up it on page 62

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
rae her caunle shone ower twa pairs o steekit een.
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
felt. He hid a few different pairs of varying sizes and measured
“You'd better give her two pairs, and if you've any felt slipp
you've any felt slippers two pairs of those too!” Jessie wiz t
3 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
it will be fan I get there. 2 pairs o’lang johns on and simmet e(2018)

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
times, Ah've wrocht that mony pairs o' sea-buit hose fur ma man t on page 7
eg by noo. Ah winder hoo mony pairs o' sea-buit hose Ah've made f on page 23

2 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
Bought fifty pairs aa black Nae metter which pai on page 18

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
e saw the birds an beasts, in pairs,
The birds an beasts aw rin in pairs,
2 matches

West Central

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
t is a dance where your three pairs up wi another three and you a
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
hoped) a fan an twa or three pairs ae totey white kid-gloves: sh on page 34
rrily alang, haun in hain, in pairs: they wir covered aw aer wae on page 78

2 matches

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
mony, mony pairs of breeks on page 15

1 matches

General Central

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
e, always a Marine. Is that 3 pairs of baffies you have there, JJ(2017)

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
hoped) a fan an twae or threi pairs o teency white kid-gloves: sh on page 33

1 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
an butterflie pairs turnt yallae wi August
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
a sundial, thirty pairs on page 42

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
ppily alang, haun an haun, in pairs: they wur aal decoratet wi ha on page 79

1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Several diffrent pairs wae me!! on page 52

1 matches

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