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The word 'flood'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
floodOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.82517
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 4
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) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of flood in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
through the flood-lit steam fae the human on page 3

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
the first island efter The Flood. on page 25

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
m o brine. A heron awaits the flood. The tide returns swiftly, an
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
waist a tyme Rippen, couse we Flood Tyde an thi win gan this aim on page 46

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
Noah gaed intill e airk an e flood cam an did awa wi them aa. E on page 109

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
re. I wad wauk throwe fire an flood afore I'd see a hair o yer he
1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
because o the floods, and the flood’s werna oor fault.’
1 matches

General Northern

@sovereigndaisy tweeted
ilson @Runrig1973 Year of the Flood for me Quine ??(2019)

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
tae watch in awe the fiery flood,
nor yet the dreich September flood
nor are we punished with a flood
an like as no the flood wid fa
4 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
or dis he get droondit in the flood, on page 106

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
Repercussions start tae flood ma mind as the adrenaline fad on page 29

1 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
door tae tell thum aboot the flood ae vomit awaiting thum jist o on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ed and hazy as the tear ducts flood his eyes, causing a cruel kal
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
ad saved Wee Grumphie fae the flood, and awbody had been that adm on page 132

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
ew acres o guid fertile grun. Flood banks had been biggit, but ev on page 17

5 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - A Braw Bairn, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
hingin oan agin thi flood, on page 59

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@CrusePat Cheers... it was a flood from above... waiting for Mic(2020)

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
ndations ava, an whaniver tha flood hut ït, tha hale hoose brauk on page 80

1 matches

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