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The word 'fricative'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fricativeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.3174
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 58.1 10 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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 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 fricative in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
r a combination o a stop an a fricative; approximants onli maks a bra on page 25
f voiceless labiodental fricative /fɔɪ/ (foy) on page 26

10 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
hummart, wi an initial dental fricative, is an interestin variant. Th
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
The fricative ‘ch’ soond is anither ken
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
The fricative soond ‘-ch’, aye present
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
happen tae share the kenable fricative “ch” soond that lowps tae
ause [x] is a voiceless velar fricative while [ç] is a voiceless pal
e [ç] is a voiceless palatal fricative.
3 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 75 - Gie Us Back Oor Place Names, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, prose
he Willowbrae Road. The velar fricative in haugh is whyles tint, sae
1 matches

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