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The word 'affection'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
affectionOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.92315
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 19.6 6 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 2
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 affection in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
sae hit is wi wir affection on page 117

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n in a byordnar show o public affection. "Beauty's bit skin deep - g on page 85

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
r sides war sair; foo te show affection wi' oot embarrassmint; an foo on page 20

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
er, barred frae her faither's affection, a bladdit flooer, an unclean
avin little ower in the wye o affection fur her dour, sarcastic brith
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
a richt boddomless ladle fur affection. They telt onybody fa speired
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
@Historic_Ally I div hae an affection fer - Moss o Barmuckity - a (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Will virus crisis mean a fresh stairt for Scots produce?, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
l interaction an the physical affection o the anes that we luve. But,
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Fir I ken 'at I'll nivir lose affection on page 109

2 matches

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
€œAs a gesture of loyalty and affection and in order to share in the
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
politeness an affection, on page 62
Affection becomes an addiction, on page 80

2 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
An' affection we jist canny hide.
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
een an suddenly felt a rush o affection for him. He had duin it that
ealous, till she saw the real affection on the Captain’s face - fo
2 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
There is, I think, playful affection in that, though it's hard tae on page 3

2 matches

General Central

Mackintosh, Henrietta A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
n Scotland, we have a special affection fur wer words.’ This is sha
ther tongues dinna hae the ae affection for their wurds? Efter mentio
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
references tae ‘ravishin ma affection’ and the wumman wieldin her
1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
He touslt his son’s heid wi affection.
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
ok his haun in a rare show ae affection, and ye said Here, it's fine on page 81

1 matches

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