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The word 'glove'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gloveOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 glove in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ed it on and it fitted like a glove. “It suits ye!” This wiz
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
Pirie, “They fit me like a glove.” He laughed and tellt her
1 matches

General Northern

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
t keep a road map book in the glove space
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
@AbzPodcast Tae really lay a glove on them ye really needed a lo (2022) twitter link
t Can talk about nae laying a glove on them but the key moment ta (2022) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ut will aye be warkin haun in glove wi the ceevil servants at the on page 122

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
in its glove on page 14

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
erly, tae lay sae muckle as a glove on the SNP. Noo they maun str
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
gallants, an they play at the glove, an on this special bonnie da(2020)

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