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The word 'benches'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
benchesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus41310
ORK - Orkney
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.6 8 5
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 benches in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Johnston, Mary Lallans 81 - A Day at Edinbro Feestival, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric, prose
gled o a sit doon on een o e benches. Mine said, ‘To the memory
1 matches

Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs Use of the common good fund for slap-up feed merely follows in grand old tradition, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
esco wedding ceremony, by the benches outside Soul Bar.
1 matches

General Northern

Innes, Brian P. Tales Fae The Doric Side - Thochts o a Teacher, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
In the middle there wis some benches an this wis far pupils could on page 50

1 matches

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
h boxes an apart fae a puckle benches like kirk pews an a couple ut
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
en burners, the lasses at the benches wi thair hair? Did ye never w
1 matches

General Central

Crichton, Tam Lallans 84 - Ower the Faem Pairt Twa: Doon the Watter, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
ere in a kist unner ane o the benches. Things we micht need for the on page 59

1 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
e taivern, an creip unner the benches whaur we on page 14

4 matches

Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
te wuid fer the palins, white benches tae sit on, on page 43

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
P man John Finnie is on their benches.
1 matches

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
ine you sat on the government benches gorgeous an yer bonnie wee fi (2022) twitter link

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