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The word 'follows'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
followsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.91915
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
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 follows 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.

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
her lessons fae college, sheu follows sense on page 18
the dunt o the invitaetion an follows the wife. on page 48

2 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
follows the first, as when the singer on page 29

1 matches

Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2017) Shetland
nounce wirds different, so it follows dat you can spell onywye you

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
Apologies tae aabody wha follows me. Its Up Helly Aa daday and (2018) twitter link

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
parchment-scroll, an read as follows: on page 105

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Rumbles, Brodie-Anne Recordin on Beep, (Scots Hoose 2022) Doric - Banff, weans
Her notes read as follows..
1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
t ma pension! Full transcript follows. This will mack yer nicht(2018)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
n the full list cos mr p only follows twae teams lol - done the lo (2021) twitter link
ples - leitch is a dentist n follows rugby and stock car racing lo (2020) twitter link
cheers for the follows guys - u no who you are (2020) twitter link

West Central

Pennie, Len The year A shouldnae hae had, (tictok 2022) Central - Kilmarnock, poetry
this just the same as the day follows night
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
wo lassies' heads turn n mine follows. on page 27
cle ae seats and the tall one follows behind, monkey tae the organ on page 58

2 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Ma hert follows him still, on page 19

1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
rnlie’? Gin ye luik at what follows in St Paul’s sentence – â
1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
year. ?????????????. Sooo, it follows it wuz 45 years ago A wuz esc(2019)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Quickly darkness soon it follows on page 47

1 matches

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
parchment-scroll, an read as follows: on page 109

1 matches

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