A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'pylons'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pylonsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.654
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 pylons in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
He lookit it the electricity pylons aat cut across the countrysid on page 92
raa Widdie noo reestit on the pylons, they wid adjust tee...an sur on page 96

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
at luikit like yon auld hydro pylons aneth the furlin ribbon o ste
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
nk click as ey pass under the pylons, the twa o em
1 matches

Dundee

Matthews, Lily A SPARK O INSPIRATION, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
pointy shards atween the twa pylons. Ah wis absolutely petrified
1 matches

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