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The word 'moons'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
moonsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.4286
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 31.5 24 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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of moons in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Peerie darlin ?? i mind many moons ago walking aroond a midden a(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
arlier; ah wis like yae, many moons ago the noo, mind yae, but ah on page 19

1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
lights illuminating under th' moons ray. Ah keeked up, bygane th'
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
s thon Muckle Rid Plouk an 79 moons o sindry sizes claucht in its
o oor warld. But it haes twa moons til oor ane. Thay are cryed D
, likely aff-fawins o the wee moons an drawn in aboot throu Jubit
ys Galileo cuid mak oot fower moons birlin aboot – noondays ken
llisto. Tae date the nummer o moons gauin aboot Jubiter that we h
23 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
Many moons ago ah wis an HGV driver. Wen(2020)

General Ulster

Hamill, Ann Yarns 3 - OOR NORN IRON WEATHER, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ulster, prose
ool o’ the evenin, whan the moons hae bin bricht.
1 matches

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