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The word 'athletes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
athletesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.798
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 athletes in Corpus

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Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
her, earnest laek. Weel some athletes seem ta live i der coach's po
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
a bittie like a naisty dose o athletes fit: stinkin, irritatin an a on page 13

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2020) Central, prose
nae know how it feels tae huv athletes foot or a verucca, an he disn
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Attention, aw’ Athletes, wha ken how it feels,
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
e an’ tears o’ oor Gowden athletes last year an’ those frae Wa
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
al, an yir joints get fucked. Athletes cannae take it. Thir's on page 2

1 matches

General Central

Robson, Frances Lallans 82 - The Locomotive, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
An if a thoosand athletes gaithered tae eat on page 30

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
led intae this room an Cretan athletes – baith lads an lassies –
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando “Blood Upon the Grass” – merk twa?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
sport is a pooerful wey that athletes, fans an sports govrenin bodi
1 matches

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