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The word 'swans'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
swansOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.53517
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 31 5 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 426.8 13 1
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of swans in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Echnaloch his ducks and swans and ither burds as weel. on page 37

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The swans luk like thur pullan slow on page 67

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
rushed, barkin, at a faimly a swans ipo da loch, bit dey just pad on page 94

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
mither o pearl, far the fite swans chittered atween the floes o
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
JSport But but @Douglas4Moray swans aboot Europe Exempt fae respo(2020)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
s o the Himalayan balsam. Twa swans, a puckle deuks an a skurrel
1 matches

Duncan, Robert Peeweep, (Wigtown 2015) Central - Lumphinnans, poetry
Roun by the Swans’ Pond,
the Swans’ Pond,
2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
n. Ah fuckin hate him. Lyndon swans in two seconds after his name on page 169

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
brithers metamorphosed intae swans, the sister set tae mak thaim
unner the bauks. Na, no doos. Swans.
wis busy, no wi fowk, bit wi swans. The flair wis an ice rink, o
ind. She thocht insteid aboot swans. She thocht o the angel wi sw
e that she micht mak a pair o swans wi him again. He drapt his ha
5 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
dugs. There's an island wi a swans' nest, year efter year they c on page 17

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Wee Story Aboot Love, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
e a loch made oot o gless, wi swans sweemin aboot in it. The fron on page 71

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
st feathers fae yer snawwhite swans tae weave amang ma threids.â€
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
mChrisRamsey Awwww whit sweet swans and signets! WARNING! Musselb(2015)

@Chazzbat tweeted
hut up. Ye're aye drap-kickin swans, ya liar!(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
the swift flight of a brace o swans on page 43

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
be transformed intae feathery swans. Ah was hairt-sure Harry an G
in transformed intae feathery swans.
ife haed turned them al intae swans.’
‘The swans were bainisht fae hame for ni
˜For three hundret years, the swans were set adrift in the wile w
13 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
emin rain, glaikit-lukkin oul swans an James Hamilton's 17C #Ulst (2016) twitter link