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The word 'tunnels'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tunnelsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4118
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 tunnels in Corpus

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Shetland

Isbister, Sonny Caves aroond Shetland, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
oo, it split intae 3 separate tunnels and dey hed tae choose da rig
1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
"Ach, the'r umpteen auld tunnels doun here, I fund this ane le on page 26

3 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
ernity, crofts and brochs and tunnels unner caves. on page 11
In the tomb turned tunnels o the brattach sith on page 29

2 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
e, usin’ the backdoors like tunnels, vaultin the wire fences, hin
1 matches

General Central

Robson, Frances Lallans 82 - The Locomotive, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
Thro muntains an tunnels an meadows - mak haste! on page 30

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 56 - Greenfield the Name O The Pit, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, poetry
through strata, tunnels, levels where coal wes, on page 107

1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
ned thegither by weird-luikin tunnels. It luiked tae Kat like a sna
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
Stonehaven is crowded to the tunnels with ppl day tripping... us l(2020)

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