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The word 'devices'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
devicesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.798
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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 devices in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
n Isie an Dandy tae their ain devices, an cairriet on inno the mids
e Minnie wis left tae her ain devices while Granny crooshied a chee
2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ae it can noo be played on aa devices http://t.co/IrfvrzzLkV http:/(2015)

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
ne that Andrew hid a'a sort o devices tae keep him happy
1 matches

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
ich held the drill and poking devices on it ,and next tae that was
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
always been left tae thir ain devices though: they could roam the s on page 81

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
is wis in the days afore sich devices became in universal usage. It
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
nou hae sae monie machines an devices an mukkil kennin at it is rae
1 matches

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