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The word 'lawn'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lawnOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.31711
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 37.7 6 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 lawn in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
The front lawn lukks an aaful mess - on page 23

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
el wis ledd as perfect as ony lawn, an da daeks at he medd wi da on page 3

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Harper, Edith Legacy, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2021) Doric, poetry
o tweeds an serge an cotton-lawn.
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
wn, Wi caller verdure owr the lawn, The gowdspink comes in new a (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Leslie, Dawn Press and Journal 2023-12-02 - Doric Corner, (no publisher recorded 2023) Doric, newspaper
wye ae day on the Elphinstone lawn his gart ma te declare ony ky
1 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
that makes the lawn a sea of mud,
1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
He richted hissel. Here wis a lawn lined wi common aik trees. It
ud jist bin drapped ontae the lawn fae space, foulie-formed. Hae
The bonnie flooers roon the lawn were identified by wee black
™m gonnae caw this The Azalea Lawn,’ he declared tae the burdi
s biggins at the corner o the lawn, wannerin insteid throu an op
6 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
In the end we had tae tak the lawn mower tae it jist tae keep it on page 103

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
an nae mair lawn mowers on page 1

1 matches

Porter, Steve Lallans 74 - Gone Wi The Windae, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
the windae wis the braw gress lawn ornamentit wi spanglin yella
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
e'd like tae *ahem* "mow thir lawn". He's a sad, lonely airticle(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ae croft, fae burn an dub tae lawn an loft, through saumples, tr on page 77

1 matches

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