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The word 'seagulls'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
seagullsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of seagulls in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Innes, Michelle Macduff, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
Seagulls fighting
1 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
the seagulls cawin on page 4

1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
t ma day wis spielt wee a yon seagulls macking a din above ma heed! (2017)
@drewmclelland @AberdeenFC Seagulls squawking, mediocre fitba, ov(2017)
ks lass, in fact yon nuisance seagulls flapping about the bar fer sc(2018)
ae watch oot fer yon blooming seagulls ?? https://t.co/wB4SgovLCz(2020)

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
hear the shriek o' the maws, seagulls in the English, they've got t on page 16

1 matches

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
Seagulls soared an’ some o’ thum s
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
yirsel in kind. Then nothin. Seagulls. on page 3

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
e shore whan she cud hear the seagulls frae hir ain scullery? An wha on page 42

1 matches

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