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The word 'cable'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cableOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7125
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 43.8 4 2
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
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 cable in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
the hail wey, or ye can tak a cable car up maist o the wey an the on page 5
€5 per person, tak the Gaia cable car tae get some mair incredi on page 10

2 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
aed haan ower haan athort the cable that streetched oot ower Rubi
ve hunner fit drap aneth that cable.
2 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
brake cable snapped fin he stopped. "Aye"
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
Wormwidd said, 'is run aff a cable that's coupled tae yin o the on page 18

4 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
h'd been allowed the internet cable, but ah tried ma best aw the on page 7

2 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
ary. Daddy willnae gie me the cable fur the internet unless he's on page 30

1 matches

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