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The word 'eld'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
eldOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.5383
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 150.7 30 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 109 6 1

Occurrences of eld in Corpus

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Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
a stone field, a weet field.' on page 20

2 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
nic each the night. We see an eld alky stoatin doon the lane in on page 12
shake ma heed it ma pal. The eld boy's eyes ir as wide as two- on page 13
tryin tae put oot bonfires ae eld, built by our fair hands n de on page 14
wild. Laughin like fuck. The eld boy looks through the fence n on page 15
ugh, still thinkin aboot that eld boy's empty two-penny eyes. on page 16
Also on pages 17, 18, 33, 38, 39, 47, 49, 51
30 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
es a thïng at tha hans o tha eldérs, tha heid preeshts an tha on page 9
eerd tell o Jesus, he axt sum eldèrs o tha Jews tae fin oot ï on page 80
l an be coul shoothert bi tha eldèrs, tha heich preeshts an th on page 85
a maistèrs o tha Laa, an tha eldèrs amang tha fowk cum up tae on page 103
ers o tha temple gaird an tha eldèrs, that haed cum oot tae ta on page 108

6 matches

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