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The word 'flaw'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
flawOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3118
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 flaw in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
ing tae bein a murderer as a 'flaw'. https://t.co/YtpWSko6Le(2021)

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
aething tae moan aboot jist a flaw.
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
ae play abroad? It’s a major flaw in the Scots character - the (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
o the tirlan burns and rivers flaw tae.
1 matches

General Central

Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
in its heelstergowdie ebb and flaw, kyths as a strenth (as Yiddi on page 59
souchs o intonation kyth and flaw like the leivin tungue itsel. on page 62

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
idleset, nae twice-commuitted flaw. on page 8
cries unherkent in the deavin flaw on page 25

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
. No lang syne chenges in the flaw o gases in the north pole, ca
1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
A flaw is a fireflaucht or lichtenin
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Just one wee flaw it burnt yer taes on page 44

1 matches

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