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The word 'girders'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
girdersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6125
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
SHD - Shetland
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 18 7 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 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 girders in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
a cathedral o girders an stances appenan on page 7
annart Days, peedie suns ithe girders lightan thir steps. Thay waak on page 61
n Light is gaitheran roon the girders. Aabody's on the floar, no se on page 139

3 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - A Day Weel Spent, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
sun sklentin throuatween the girders an castin three vast shaidaes on page 125

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy A Day Weel Spent, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
sun sklentin throuatween the girders an castin three vast shaidaes
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
monn the made in scotland fae girders dipped his body in the icy br (2021) twitter link
s btw - made in scotland fae girders lol (2021) twitter link
itbaw - made in scotland fae girders - we r the people n as aways (2021) twitter link
t yet - made in scotland fae girders n when the borders r shut - (2020) twitter link
made in scotland fae girders n a real fitbaw player - a r (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
impossible architecture o icy girders spannt the ruif, ilk icicle j
1 matches

General Central

Robson, Frances Lallans 74 - The Tartanic, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
vodka wi girders. They thocht we wir mental.
1 matches

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