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The word 'dwellin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dwellinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1135
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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) 163.5 9 1

Occurrences of dwellin in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
oon, dir rüfs fell in, an da dwellin hoose even cam ta be used as on page 8

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
it, eh? Ah should jist stoap dwellin oan it. Makes me angry everyt on page 61

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
e a doll's hoose than a human dwellin. The on page 177

1 matches

General Central

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
novate the place as a private dwellin.

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
ha bodie wha awns or sets tha dwellin-place, ether in aucht richt-o
ha bodie wha awns or sets tha dwellin-place, ayther in aucht richt-
ets (or pairt awns /sets) tha dwellin-place; an/or
6 aboot this hoosehaud an its dwellin-place.
Wud yer dwellin-place be in tha aucht o yer h
9 matches

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