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The word 'balcony'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
balconyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6207
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 32.7 10 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 37.2 6 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
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 balcony in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
nt, wi its colour T.V. an bra balcony owerleukin the pool. on page 42

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
fir ye!" Joyce roart fae the balcony. on page 10
d, comin staggerin in fae the balcony in his draars fin he heard th on page 17
. "A lassie wi a good rack, a balcony...a double D delicht!" on page 55

4 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
s quaet. Ootside the Doctor's balcony in the high rise flats o the
eil lichtit cannles alang the balcony. Twis a saft, quaet nicht, na
sup tae ett an jyne me on the balcony. I've telt Neil I've a dirlin
he sat in the warm derk o the balcony on a comfy seat owerluikin th
art her brither luik ower the balcony, doun tae the quarry founs.
5 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
¨ve, fit is also kent as the 'Balcony of Geneva', ye hae twa option on page 5

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e fae his wicker chair on the balcony. She wad rin up the twa fligh
ns, the weemen sut oot on the balcony at the back o the lamasery, c
The balcony leukit ower a sheer drap. Mai
n sut aside her on the sinlit balcony. She pickit up the first thin
he quate days o shewin on the balcony wis lang past. “They’re h
6 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
e's steps leadin up tae a wee balcony. The wee windae panes above i on page 4

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
French doors leadin oot tae a balcony; views ay an unfamiliar citys
1 matches

General Central

@LowEndJardo tweeted
n or the company, just ma wee balcony in the morning wae a coffee n (2021) twitter link