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The word 'doubles'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
doublesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4119
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
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 doubles in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
doubles a vockal in the studio, on page 29

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
we go into the owld shed that doubles as a stable and we sit on the on page 30

1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
anely ane in Europe that also doubles as a permanent performin airt on page 18

1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@Ali_Leith On doubles noo baith hans(2020)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
er wae a guid turn oh pace - doubles up with wallyford bluebell on (2021) twitter link
@bluenosetaylor1 the doubles oan m8 lol (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
shop wummin though: she also doubles as the cleaner, the auxiliary on page 33

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Wee Roge Boobs, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
œWell A had a game o’ mixed doubles at the beginnin’ but A’ve
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
e in his belly. The big fella doubles err. The rest ae the boays st on page 26

1 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
e sword but he's too slow. He doubles err as the tangerine makes co on page 175

1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
pairtner for the Mixed-Planet Doubles canna play this year - she's on page 20

1 matches

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