| idioms | Occurrences normalised per million words | Occurrences | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Corpus | 2.7 | 9 | 7 |
| 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 | 2.6 | 1 | 1 |
| WCE - West Central | |||
| DUN - Dundee | |||
| EDN - Edinburgh | |||
| GLA - Glasgow | |||
| AYR - Ayrshire | |||
| LAL - General Central | 9.2 | 7 | 5 |
| 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) | 32.8 | 1 | 1 |
| GUL - General Ulster | |||
| SYN - Synthetic (no region) |
Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
stic hybrid: colloquial Scots idioms plus the heich register o Sco on page 60
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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
T HOO YE PIT IT. Oor sheed on Idioms, wrutten bi Christie Williams on page 5
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
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@jack_capener tweeted
aw tae dae a feature on Scots idioms sic as this yin thit aab'dy c(2019)