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The word 'shambles'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shamblesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.4307
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 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 56.3 22 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of shambles in Corpus

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General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
fer fed up, the flittin wis a shambles. Stanley an Grace spent the h
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
t tae moan. It’s an historic shambles of inequity (2020) twitter link
lot o work tae de. They are a shambles of a party. (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
left them - such a shame - shambles alas imo (2020) twitter link
play football m8 - aye its a shambles defo (2020) twitter link
using things further - total shambles imo (2021) twitter link
grassroots game - its just a shambles - keep the heed up n (2020) twitter link
the state o the snp - feckin shambles m8 - oor local council is te (2020) twitter link
and 17 other occurrences.

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
The weddin wis a shambles. Wan ae Kelly's other cousins on page 169

1 matches

Percy, Ely The Family Situation, (The Interpreters House.org 2020) Central, prose
The weddin wis a shambles. Wan ae Kelly’s other cousi
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ere at breakfast! They were a shambles!” ranted Callum, noo thorou
1 matches

General Central

@alistairdunn tweeted
one 3 n a half weeks ago is a shambles.(2017)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
s First Minister when his ain shambles o a boss has brought the enti(2020)