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The word 'repair'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
repairOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.71514
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
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 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 3
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 2
LAL - General Central 8 6 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 repair in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
The repair wis coman at. Thay uissed thi on page 144

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General Northern

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
e wis a lot o fouk needed tae repair a the trains, bit her faither on page 14

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Bridges tae repair, an holes tae be fillt, on page 16

1 matches

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
ometimes the men wid come tae repair the road an they wid bring th on page 76

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Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
se mair nor £200,000 for its repair alang wi the John Muir Trust.
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
nal in character, bit in guid repair, verra private in its ain gru
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
he kep the fail-dykes in guid repair, his craps wad be safe. on page 50

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Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Bridges tae repair, an holes tae be fillt,
1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
i me, I had tae dae the fykie repair mysel. It wis a maitter o lif on page 11

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
would huv been broken beyond repair, but when ah pressed the oan on page 84

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Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
he'd drink until ayont repair on page 68

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Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
r the scuilmaister an bigg or repair the scuilhoose. Hooanever, th
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@alistairdunn tweeted
ad done that they planned tae repair it..clearly no(2014)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ings . . Ah love watchin "The Repair Shop". The sheer skill and ge (2021) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
When aching limbs repair on page 11

1 matches

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