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The word 'achilles'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
achillesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of achilles in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
osans o windaes like gowd aff Achilles' targ – a hunner storeys' h
1 matches

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
ck, knee and tendinitis of my Achilles. Dinnae here me going on abou(2020)

West Central

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
est argument an oor permanent Achilles heel; sae culturally distinct
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
pairently Achilles had come tae hide amang the w
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
couch but they words are his Achilles heel cos he’ll no pass up a
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
Devonshire, Exeter, Ajax, Achilles, on page 50

1 matches

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