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The word 'worlds'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
worldsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.61512
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 worlds in Corpus

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Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
Got my old Minecraft worlds up an runnin on da new laptop (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Rumbles, Brodie-Anne Recordin on Beep, (Scots Hoose 2022) Doric - Banff, weans
stroys solar systems and hale worlds. I get ane measly glance o th
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
. Different sports, different worlds. And it wis that night in tha on page 68

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Through wintry worlds A wander, lost,
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
the gyms and the cyclists - worlds gaun mad lol (2020) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ks cairried her awa intae new worlds and introduced her tae amazin on page 15

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Shi his thi best o baith worlds on page 77

1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
d, like sommat oot the better worlds ye see in the pictures. on page 7

2 matches

General Central

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
ect in David Daiches book Two Worlds, A Scottish Jewish Childhood on page 8

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ional' ... such 'traditional' worlds are social constructs which a on page 56

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
nt wark sib tae this wis More Worlds than One: The Creed of the Ph
the Moon (1900) an War of the Worlds (1897). It wis aiblins fae th
2 matches

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
counrty its no the rest o the worlds got talent. #beatit(2013)