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The word 'flech'
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Use in varieties of Scots flech Occurrences normalised per million words Occurrences Authors
Dialect map - Usage over time
Total Corpus 3.7 12 9 ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
23.2
4
3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
13.1
4
2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
4.4
1
1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
4.6
1
1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
6.3
1
1
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)
Occurrences of flech in Corpus
In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to
the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.
Shetland
Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand , (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
nda lossin patience: "ony sea- flech could a telled dee dat." on page 103
1 matches
De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic , (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
a roond cairdboard box markit FLECH POODER FOR DUGS. KEEP WEEL AW
1 matches
Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon , (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
, you might even fin a peerie flech at hame dere.
bed dir hair an beards so nae flech or leftower maet stood a chan
2 matches
Mid Northern A
Grant, Margaret Young At Hert , (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
He thocht he hid a flech on page 15
3 matches
Blackhall, Sheena Minnie , (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ies, ye've as much sense as a flech ' she raged.
1 matches
General Northern
McDonald, John Mou Her Name , (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
flech -champit lugs cockit scawt tik on page 3
1 matches
West Central
Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots , (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ll belloched. 'Ye're a walkin flech -factory! Ah dinnae want tae s on page 138
1 matches
Edinburgh
Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences , (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ed it. He chased an invisible flech aa ower hissel. She leuch wi
1 matches
General Central
Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I , (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Bothwell, ti destroy this flech . on page 35
1 matches