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The word 'keyboard'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
keyboardOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.61815
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of keyboard in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
keyboard, stirleen on page 10

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
We sit at keyboard, dy fingers mair wint on page 84

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
keyboard like a hail o explodin orange
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
hilk includes monitor, moose, keyboard, 3 free leeshins mention DP h(2017)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
pairty piece (sang or poem). Keyboard music will be tae haund.
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 62 - Blue Lift Snaw, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
richt ricky-doodum-day on his keyboard, but I teuk a wee glintie o t
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
warrior - thats worse than a keyboard warrior brother - tut tut! (2021) twitter link
es1108 aye jist a private eye keyboard warrior m8 - sits oan the fe (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
d and he begins typin oan his keyboard. He starts by rhymin oaff a s
as he readies himself at the keyboard tae note doon maire ae ma ans
hatefully typin awey oan her keyboard. Reluctantly huntin doon a su
3 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Quite.’ he sais, tappin his keyboard. ‘and what sort of work is
1 matches

Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ul swing intae full flow. The keyboard warriors wul gie him a neat,
1 matches

General Central

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
"Gang intae keyboard settings - on page 7

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Votin isna Democracy. But..., (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
hrough ma fingers an ontae ma keyboard acause o the election bein th
1 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
onload an app cryed 'SwiftKey Keyboard' fir yer phone - it lets ye (2019)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
s. Wishart is jist Sturgeon's keyboard warrior - that's all he ever (2022) twitter link

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
a cannae find an umlaut on my keyboard ava! (2015) twitter link