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The word 'jewellery'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
jewelleryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.43015
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 44.3 10 4
NEC - North East Central 139.1 3 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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 jewellery in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
Bit it wis da jewellery at fascinated me - I followe on page 42
d do dat. An dir aye buyin me jewellery - sees du dis lovely peacock on page 43
da boannie jewellery, cushion covers, even da dug' on page 53

3 matches

Watt, Valerie Cheerio for eenoo . . ., (Shetland Times 2011) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
we fan oot hit wis a piece o jewellery fae Viking times dat wis used
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"I,..Ramazan...from Jewellery Centre inside," said the loon on page 8
boxie wi bitties o wirthless jewellery; a lace-edged hunkie aat Ah'd on page 79

4 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
l hid a saft spot fur Minnie. Jewellery ay luiks best fin it's preene
1 matches

Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs Use of the common good fund for slap-up feed merely follows in grand old tradition, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
rt (as weel as a laptop, some jewellery and a set o’ golf clubs).
1 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
uce. Actually, Ah sell aa the jewellery Ah tak aff weemin. on page 40

1 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
en the storm passes, pieces o jewellery float intae the air then vani on page 118

7 matches

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
osis o culture, especially on jewellery an cairved steens - Celtic a
1 matches

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
puckle photies and a wee bit jewellery… but this… this wis aa bl
1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
an the buirit troves o siller jewellery fund in Fife gar us tak tent
in terms o archeology, airt, jewellery an history. The few damagin m
2 matches

Heather, Alistair The Body Snatchers, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
hey’d strip aa the claes an jewellery aff the body an dump it back
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Economic Theory, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
aun. She haed on a lot o junk jewellery, haed a tan deep as gar shaw
€™m blamin thon wumman wi her jewellery an bloose, sae it's her shop
2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e disnae let anywan touch her jewellery. She nearly broke yome lassie on page 107

1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
lease remove your top and any jewellery and stand against the X-ray m
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
waws, banes and ferlie silver jewellery. The ettle o these symbols se
nce fur the makkin o fantoosh jewellery sic as brooches and pins, pos
2 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
thir shells huv bin yaised in jewellery fer centuries, among ither th(2020)

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