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The word 'echoes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
echoesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.82620
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 17.8 4 3
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 20.5 4 3
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of echoes in Corpus

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Orkney

Skea, Bessie Gallows Ha - Earth-bound, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
apon the wind, a voice thair echoes clos ahint - on page 24

2 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Hid echoes, noo, wi sighs and groans, wi on page 33

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
passan train cranks its lang echoes on page 112

1 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
An aye its echoes hant my myn, on page 7

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tartan Tourism nae mair, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
body o wark is aaready haein echoes aroon Scotland. Scriever Kath
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
The wood echoes with fierce lament; Dark form on page 6

1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
The'r a whein biblical echoes in the contreibutiouns o Gavi on page 9

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 82 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Prestwick, prose
in 'The Cream Cookie'. The'r echoes o Tam Leonard in the pattrent on page 7

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
weel-acquentit wi the mockin echoes o the Mail an the Murdos… B
1 matches

Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
™m feart it’s gaun back tae echoes, tae gazing at wir navels and
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Lallans 82 - The Banes o Alba, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
stampt oot sic echoes on page 32

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
airdly tae be seen. That this echoes procedures in the hoose o Wes on page 49

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 82 - Biggin the Great Nor Road, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
ister Wiseman's ploy an graft echoes on page 67

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
echoes white ants whusperin through on page 16

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
y. 'Wit's yir name, wee man?' echoes throughout the group. Hands i on page 22
bers fae a campfire, ma story echoes like a ghost story roon our w on page 31

2 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Dried up, only the faur faint echoes o bluims on page 134

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e loose scree beneath ma feet echoes aboot me as ah try tae stop m
1 matches

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt Tuim Tattie, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
wanhowp echoes
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Mannie, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
aces o themsels, the faintest echoes on the canvas. And if whit sh on page 10

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Eemis Stane 2 - Editorial: A Twa Wey Street, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, prose
vern, here it is, the dwaumie echoes o oor ain vyces cairryin back on page 3

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
Here, wi echoes o the myth o Iphis and Ianthe
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
in the glen whaur echoes arise oan aw sides on page 9

1 matches

Tindal, Betty Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
nae langer echoes tae ony herd's fit, on page 151

1 matches

General Ulster

@HurchinHome tweeted
Scottish/Irish linguistic echoes in Go Set a Watchman--"clabbe(2015)