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The word 'impressions'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
impressionsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.71511
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 impressions in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
he case it is, in spite o the impressions laid aboot bae sensationalist
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
t disna dae ti judge bi first impressions, but Ah hiv ti say the first on page 72

1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
gh up – roondit, fower-toed impressions bigger than fitbas an clawed
1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
Words Worth Reading: Impressions and Recollections from the Li on page 121

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Harpreet wis daein ned impressions an she kept makin me laugh by on page 117
things an daein Mister Singh impressions, an by the time we wur due ta on page 163

2 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 82 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Prestwick, prose
ren, Colin Robertson gies us 'Impressions o Chinese', at talks aboot a on page 7

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
, but hauf the time yer first impressions aboot things are totally, tot on page 27
e that the Baudelaires' first impressions aboot Coont Olaf and his hoos on page 28

4 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
ene. Thay fund sindry roondit impressions in the grund an it wis weel s
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
he follaein is jist sum first impressions lowpin aboot ma sleep-deprive
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
r shite. It's no funny an the impressions ur awfy. Whit a let doon.(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Ah cannae dae songs or impressions fir toffee, And play ye guita on page 77

1 matches

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