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The word 'clover'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cloverOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.3178
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 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 1
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 clover in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
My first red clover flooer o da year http://t.co/(2014)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e," he said, pickin a hanfu o clover an pullin ma doon te lie asid on page 44
e dried an fadit fower-leaved clover pressed atween its pages. "Ah on page 45

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
n wi buttercups an sweet pink clover; the dykes wad be brichtened
1 matches

General Northern

Skinner, Alison C. Tales Fae The Doric Side - Leaves, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
sair fecht, the fower-leafed clover cooried in her English O leve on page 23

1 matches

Faffe, Christina Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Special Licht, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Mixin in wi the perfume o the clover aff the dunes. on page 81

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
heids, reid-centred, like clover, which dragged on page 112

2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
maun hae seemed like a park o clover. on page 24

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
e twa cairt-horses, Boxer and Clover, came in thegither, daunderin on page 6

8 matches

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