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The word 'badges'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
badgesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.91310
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 badges in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Name badges Elvis an Shepherd on page 11

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
site. It'll ging wi a load o badges I hiv alriddy. https://t.co/b(2020)

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
wee badges wi ‘Paralytics’ prentit o
haid badges peend tae thair coats. A thin
2 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@DeesideDon Badges a hidden(2020)

(South) East Central

Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
till hae it in the press. The badges anaw.
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Yes Nae Mair, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
ae bring masel tae bin. Pens, badges, flags, wristbands. Oor hame,
? Ah ayeweys liked the Gaelic badges, the yins that said "Bu Choir
2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
e were T-shirts an posters an badges, but maist o the siller cam f on page 106

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
an his broken nails, wis the badges o his craft. Whit Hsien buir
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
feck o hooses had regimental badges, or belt buckles, glengarry b on page 23

2 matches

General Central

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - Banes, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Is a rake o badges, on page 75

1 matches

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