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The word 'hillside'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hillsideOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus51611
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 hillside in Corpus

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Orkney

Tait, Ruth Gallows Ha - Watchan Eyes, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
it o green stands oot oan the hillside, on page 9
d bit wis manhandled doon the hillside. on page 10

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: A Hamefarin hero, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
wi a peerie trow on a Shetlan hillside. Even wi da excitement o sett
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@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
@drl dirs a hoos in hillside dat has dir ootside decoratio (2019) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
a herd o piggies feedin on e hillside, an e speerits priggit wi him on page 94

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Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
jist like the rest. Up on the hillside, it leuks ower the watter tha on page 18

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General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
s an twists o heather on that hillside, that the animal wis in his f
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Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
he lave, hunkerin on the bare hillside wi thair backs tae
wind in a howe on the barren hillside. He strauchtent up an accepti
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Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
ter sweepin aroon the Chinese Hillside, Allan fund it wis mair comfo
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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
congregation on this Ayrshire hillside, tae be fed, replenished an s on page 35
ers fanned oot an scoured the hillside; an it wis nae surprise when on page 47

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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
elements (sic as brae meanin 'hillside' or burn meanin 'stream'). Th on page 53

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Thoumire, Elizabeth The killin fields!, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
the wee feart beasts aff the hillside an daein it like sodgers on a
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