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The word 'playgroond'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
playgroondOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.962
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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 playgroond in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
n his ain blood than brek the playgroond code." on page 187
wae Craigy at the first year playgroond. The corridors wur rammed on page 194
s selt fur fifty pence in the playgroond? ah want ma cut. Ah'm a reaso on page 200

3 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
they tried tae pass oaff as a playgroond safe fur kids. Decent climbin
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
ake oor way ower the concrete playgroond and heid doon taewards the tr on page 41
l, ah want the concrete o the playgroond tae open and swallow me whole on page 48

2 matches

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