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The word 'backend'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
backendOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.963
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 2
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
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of backend in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Backend Boggle on page 136

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Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2021) Orkney
le wis the Yorkshire words ‘backend’ (autumn) and ‘backendish
). Wir fokk eused the word ‘backend’ bit no meanan ‘hairst’
irst. ‘Hid wis gey near the backend afore a’ the crop wis in’
d hiv the Harvest Home at the backend. Whit deu ither Reevlers thin

North Northern B (Caithness)

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
Fuirsday, lek the day, in the backend. on page 125

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