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The word 'ridge'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ridgeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.81912
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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 231.9 5 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 25 4 1
GLA - Glasgow 18.2 4 4
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ridge in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
l is, air wis most o e time a ridge or a furrow in e way wherever on page 79

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair The ghaist lichts, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
ukit oot ower the Trotternish ridge, a muckle formation o black c
e ontae the daurk Trotternish ridge. The ghaist lichts ar back, s
ed crashed on the Trotternish Ridge till she noticed the hale cla
the hicht tae mak it ower the ridge, which wis lost in the haar.
w the black o the Trotternish Ridge daurk agin the sky. An they s
5 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
ppie. Yit aa owre this dreich ridge were the sites associatit wi on page 77

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
in, Tad cautiously breistit a ridge an waved tae Hsien tae jyne h
ran back tae the cover o the ridge. She leukit tae see gin Bill
tor had made it back ower the ridge.
he fortress toon on the neist ridge, a silhouette lichtenin gradu
4 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
at, thir wis nearly ayeweys a ridge or a furra in the wey whereve on page 81

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
Biueee Ridge maaaahhwnttainssss, on page 3

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
or Rab, dreamin o Tallahassee Ridge, on page 135

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
awn tae the horizon alang the ridge line fae Dechmont Hill, past
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
“Druim na Drochaid – the ridge of the bridge’.
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
glaikit no daft, scaur no ridge. on page 15

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
aal this, thur wus usually a ridge or a furrow in the wye o whur on page 83

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
up. Yin man sat alane on the ridge o the cliff, watchin. She hun on page 50

1 matches

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