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The word 'album'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
albumOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.42417
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 23 5 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 27.3 6 3
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 album in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
eyan the stamps fur the album on page 46

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
hearin on 6music dat dirs an album called "bonxie" aboot to be r(2015)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
es o a fooshtiesmellin photie album an read the article, brittle on page 63

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
olinclyne fae named his debut album aifter the Doric dialect has (2014)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
(album version) on page 202

1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
intae this last night, great album, very interesting artist (2020) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
we skinned up oor joints oan album sleeves; on page 61

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Yes Nae Mair, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
t-shirts fae afore the first album. Fowk wi their first edition
1 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
rocht oot the 2011 Oor Wullie album.
wis polite. We lookit at the album. And jings, crivens, help ma
s oot o’ the new Oor Wullie album, or if he thocht we wis rippi
3 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
emorable snaps fur the photae album. And Bruce goat tae play wae
1 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
s favourite Frightened Rabbit album is The Winter of Mixed Drinks on page 16

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
a done so much better wi that album" "When you come home drunk It on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
t died durin the makin ay the album the single’s taken fae, a f
ong intro at the start ay the album emanates fae the speaker, fil
tae let it play through; the album as a medium is no tae be trif
Loads ay cunts say this album’s pish compared tae their f
4 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
h press play oan ma favourite album and close ma eyes. on page 85

1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt twa: Janus leuks aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
e tae Martyn Bennett’s Grit album cried ‘Nae Regrets’. Grit
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
the Fergusson’s Auld Reikie album sung bi Rod Paterson. https:/(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
hted tae announce I hae every album ever made by Simon and Garfun(2020)
liff Pilchard is releasing an album tae coincide wae his 80th bir(2020)

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