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The word 'magnetic'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
magneticOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5165
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 1
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 magnetic in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
when I met him, Noah o the magnetic north, on page 25

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
tae man. I wiz oot an in the Magnetic Resonance Scanner M.R.S. like
did I get that my heed became magnetic an they still couldna find fi
ion. I didna ken I’d become magnetic until I wiz leavin the hospit
uminum packin case which isna magnetic an teen me tae the hospital.
heir machines tae reverse the magnetic field- - - - !”
5 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
n back up at me. It’s their magnetic eyes, ah could easily pick th
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
k A like hur tae. Hur lips ir magnetic n mine ir metal. A'm lookin a on page 40

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
n the surface o the Sun whaur magnetic fields is that strang that th
cannie. At antrin times thir magnetic plouks lowps ootwards in muck
e hail o the Yird but for the magnetic fields that haps oor warld. H
atmosphere, but it daes hae a magnetic field. The gravity is jist ow
at kirns an turns an maks the magnetic fields that haps the planet o
8 matches

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