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The word 'rides'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ridesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus51611
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 20.5 8 3
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 rides in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
sitors embark on waks an bike rides alang the river Loire, stappi on page 17

1 matches

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
banes gies a 'crack', syne he rides awa, lauchin til himsel aw th on page 48

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
The king rides from Dunfermline town Upon a on page 3
He rides again from the royal town, To on page 4
The king rides out once more, upon A tame an on page 5
The sun (nor Hell?). He rides and sails Ti Scotland incogni on page 9
Michael rides up ti the tap o Bell Craig! T on page 10

6 matches

Lamb, Darcie T in the Park, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Kirkcaldy, prose
n the place wis go oan aw the rides. There wis still some oors ta
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ays yi didnae go on fancy bus rides. Ah'd hardly call gaun tae th on page 169

1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
wears a pinted hat an’ she rides an aul’ broom
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
right, but he's a big cunt n rides it. BANG. Danny hits him a fu on page 19

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
and the crankin and creakin o rides. on page 32

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
n doun like cosmic cuddies at rides in the shaws – only this ga
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
alang wi twenty followers he rides intae the wee toun o Sanquhar

Robertson, James Dr Wha, (Scottish Poetry Library 2018) Central, poetry
that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels
1 matches

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