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The word 'clearance'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
clearanceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.9167
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 37.6 6 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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 clearance in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
his brithers aboot e time o e clearance tae Babylon. on page 7

4 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Brian agreed, an socht clearance wi the heid-bummer o the Cult
1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
There’s a new hieland clearance in the Cabrach. It’s turned
1 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Highland Clearance
1 matches

Edinburgh

Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
e systematic an aften forcefu clearance o native Gaels. Wi ilka momen
€™, we benefit indirectly fae clearance an depopulation.
dowie feelin that hings ower clearance ruins lik haar ower the braeh
the forces that brocht aboot clearance, the accompanyin emotional re
a group o fowk benefitin fae clearance aften sae keen tae reverse th
6 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 79 - The Ratton, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
nerstaund ilka word. It wis a clearance o whit A had bin jalousin afo on page 83

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
rless strata it maun'a been a clearance as the facts an the theory ca
1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
It micht come as a clearance tae fowk that the’r nae off
1 matches

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