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The word 'shetlan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shetlanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1134
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 69.7 12 3
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
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
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 shetlan in Corpus

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Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2017) Shetland
ferent an' different areas ö Shetlan' pronounce wirds different, s

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: A Hamefarin hero, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
Da press gang laekit Shetlan men for dir seamanship. An wi
t here. Men ir hoidin aa ower Shetlan in caves an on da hills. Wir
erie boats tae geng aa aroond Shetlan.
freends wi a peerie trow on a Shetlan hillside. Even wi da exciteme
4 matches

Watt, Valerie A skoit trowe da shops, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
nnie things. Up tae da meenit Shetlan goods alangside designer fash
on a scarf med o bricht pink Shetlan oo. I wis prinkin afore a muc
2 matches

Watt, Valerie Görwill trows blamed for earthquake, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
tae spread dat ivery trow in Shetlan hed a bid tae da Görwill ran
nce I wis fit tae drap. Ivery Shetlan trow kent o wis dancing laek
2 matches

@HazelTindall tweeted
jane Enjoy dy last foo day in Shetlan. Shetland Forwirds wirks hard(2019)
hetland I will hae ta look at Shetlan dictionary.(2020)
@ShetlandLibrary Yea, Shetlan characters need ta ös da ric(2020)

West Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Rants and Foys, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
up wi it. In fack, the great Shetlan fiddler Dr Aly Bain MBE haes on page 56

1 matches

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