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The word 'holdall'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
holdallOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2143
ORK - Orkney
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 12.9 5 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 40.2 8 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 holdall in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
s arm as if it really wis his holdall an marched oot. on page 38
n sat thinkin. He emptied his holdall, the yin that Joey had mistak on page 43
left here; only wee Hughie's holdall, an he took it hame." "What k on page 44

5 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
there wi his big flourescent holdall, wi aw the cans a juice an th on page 164

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ewards it, haudin the leather holdall oot in front ay me like a mat
.’ he sais, gien me another holdall.
nger.’ ah sais, grabbin the holdall an makin fur the door, gien G
ae the kitchen an ah open the holdall, gettin a block ay the gear o
fuckin Don Kiddie-on-ay wae a holdall full ay gear, dain his biddin
5 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
r side an discreetly drap the holdall to the flair. He taps the roo
1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
n?’ ah sais, noddin tae the holdall lyin oan the flair.
h gie him the gear oot ay the holdall oan the flair afore pappin it
2 matches

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