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The word 'towel'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
towelOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.52417
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 38 7 4
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 6
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of towel in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
an you help share a bit o tea towel love and heritage? @PromoteSh(2020)

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
on the towel draped across his lounger on page 55

1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
d every last speck in a paper towel. Next he went oot tae the com on page 43
MOIRA: Quick, wrap this towel roond it. Warm it up some mai on page 60

2 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
. She dried herself aff wae a towel as she couldnae risk switchin
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
hoose coat on an a big white towel wrapped roon ma heid lik a tu on page 35
me he jist haundet me a dish towel an said, Here's a job fur yi, on page 141

2 matches

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
an wad busk the front o a tea-towel. A sma haundfu o wirds - Hoo
1 matches

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
daddy gave ma back a rub wi a towel an said 'Dinnae worry, Michae on page 76

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
ke,' laughs Disco. 'Use a tea towel or suhin.' on page 31

2 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Jumped aff o thon tea-towel wi a tear, on page 131
unseen by man nor dug nor tea-towel. on page 132

3 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
bastart like watter fae a wet towel, its wings flutterin long eft
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah flicked the tea towel at him.
1 matches

General Central

Robson, Frances Lallans 85 - What Kind Of Scots?, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, poetry
you buy it on a souvenir tea towel? on page 9

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
ord, she hauns me a wet paper towel. There's nought in the wee sc on page 15

2 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
din a guid spot tae plank yer towel doon, On dreich and cloody da on page 2

1 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
is his towel on page 9

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
a tea towel on page 67

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
Ah've thrown in the towel. Ah cudnae tak ony mair o the(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
ur o tha wat aff it wi an oul towel, an threw a drap o coal on th on page 18

1 matches

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