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The word 'skeletons'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
skeletonsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.31110
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 skeletons in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Aal the roosty skeletons o the scuttled German boats on page 37

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
roosted skeletons chained tae the train station on page 5

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
peeled the fish off the tiny skeletons, and ate every scrap!" on page 9
. I canna mind if dir dug ony skeletons dere, bit I wid tink dey most on page 54

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
Jist skeletons wi neen a heed! on page 16

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
laboratories inno the whales' skeletons aneth the sea tae bigg coloni
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ir relations were naethin but skeletons nou, or weel on the way, moul on page 97

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
just us two runnin among the skeletons ae trees against the snow. A' on page 34

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
nkled as prunes, and baney as skeletons, and durin the day, until Cha on page 9

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
n will sterve there amang the skeletons o yer kinsfowk.”
1 matches

McNulty, Victoria Flit, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
2 million human skeletons high
1 matches

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