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The word 'comets'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cometsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7123
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
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 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.7 11 2
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 comets in Corpus

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Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Wis young and comets ruled the sky and muins arose on page 13

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
rose up, aiblins brocht throu comets. Syne cam life. Oor blue-gree
is the Kuiper Belt whaur the comets bides. The sun's gravity dwyn
watter is whiles brocht throu comets.
Whiles comets comes ben this airt as thay d
t. The first is the bide-awee comets that taks less nor 200 year t
9 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 62 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ss o the sun, planets, muins, comets, asteroids an mair forby. Air
1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
the stour gaithert aboot twa comets wis dismisst bi astrologues a
1 matches

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