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The word 'visitors'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
visitorsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus13.94617
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 137.6 3 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 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 visitors in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
The pale puddeenless visitors arranged on page 14
In lamplight the visitors on page 32

2 matches

Hall, Simon W. Tame Hogmanay, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
late eighties he hid a hunder visitors the first New Year.
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
rdenBirdwatch Just my regular visitors dis year. Calm enough to leav(2016)
in hain a variety o feathered visitors tae my garden ower da last tw(2014)
lianbrans I love these peerie visitors ?? I've a lovely memory o see(2018)

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
As the visitors howpit their sma G an Ts on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
airs. "Maybe you'll have some visitors this afternoon." on page 46

2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Cheap Visitors provides easy way to drive re(2017)

General Northern

Stewart, Del Tales Fae The Doric Side - Seaforth Road, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
there'll be nae visitors. on page 71

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Trains approachin?, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
ve: a 27 per cent increase in visitors steyin at hotels an B and Bs;
Bs; 20 per cent mair spent by visitors on bevvy an scran. Aa across
2 matches

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
th the Cabrach as tourists an visitors tae learn mair aboot this aft
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
er o them micht recognise the visitors. Luckily he ran intae Patrick on page 27
pies wisnae follaeit. The twa visitors thocht it a much better idea on page 28
ie lad, in Durham jile ye get visitors.' on page 47
n Kinpurney tho Davie did get visitors. This was the haill bench o D on page 89

4 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Flemings o’ Dalnoid, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
ken't! She said she'd lots o' visitors, one arrived when she was asl
1 matches

Glasgow

Atkins, Elise Billy Barr ’n’ Jonny Jimison’s Day Oot!, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Central, prose
desk, waitin’ fur the next visitors. Billy pulled two tuppence pi
1 matches

Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Entertaining visitors is pure dead brilliant
1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
t-on baith bylocal folk an by visitors. Gin this were duin for Scots on page 13
e dout that maist enterprisin visitors wid favour seein a country th on page 14

2 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
e Rector nou. He had seen the visitors' buik at the office. The circ on page 37

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
Three visitors turned up, aw the way frae th

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ly pods or cabins in Skye for visitors...coz my twa dugs in a tent i(2020)

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