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The word 'fold'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
foldOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11714
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 3
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 15.1 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 fold in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
nto da utility room daday tae fold some laundry and saw a spider (2018) twitter link

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
inse cups, put awa dishes and fold up towels until I realise hoo
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
's lack ae willingness no tae fold. on page 109

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
bottom an the sides. They'll fold up in a minute. on page 66

2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
the now m8 - yes clubs will fold alas - eos is good thru here (2020) twitter link

West Central

Clark, Thomas Yes Nae Mair, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
"Naw" are welcomed intae the fold, it'd be guid tae stairt mind
1 matches

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
they wid brush thir claes an fold thim ower a chair or pit thir on page 76

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
feelin sorry fur himsel an ah fold the photie in hauf, puttin it on page 9

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
t in oan tap ay the covers an fold ma airms, leanin forward.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
feelin sorry fur himsel an ah fold the photie in hauf, puttin it
1 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Hapt up in Mossgeil's fold, on page 14

1 matches

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
n a while, eh? Tak' yer time, fold it intae shape an' watch it g on page

1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
oan tae @ElginCityFC , don’t fold noo......??(2019)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
n the other direction" - two-fold problematic (aye weel ye ken (2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
ht Ah suggest a poncho ye cin fold up an keep in yer haundbag or(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Cooried in ticht she'd fold her wings on page 158

1 matches

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