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The word 'cliff'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cliffOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.23022
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 26.2 8 5
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 18.2 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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) 98.5 3 1
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of cliff in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Bessie, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
runnin along the cliff top, on page 19

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
cliff gutter, clamber, clang - on page 15

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
el-kent face Fancy Pavarotti, Cliff an me Aa newsin till her Maje on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
wild flooers aat coloured the cliff taps afore lookin doon inte t on page 21

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
e win back her ain. On jaggie cliff-heids, rived like warrior's s
ies ower bi the North, at the cliff's foun", quo she. "like frang
hunkers ower a stammygaster o cliff an cloud. The michty sun glis
-three jet-blaik shags on the cliff aneth rankled their tarry fea
4 matches

Hutchison, Pat If I Catch Ye I'll Eat Ye, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
irlin as they ran back up the cliff road back towards the toon, t
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2012) Doric - Buckie
I bade at 8 Cliff street Buckie till i married

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
faain oot an tummlin doon the cliff, but there wad hae been nae w
1 matches

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@FaeFoggie I div ye mean ony Cliff een or ony ither tune?(2020)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
ae daith by being flung aff a cliff. on page 3

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Wham cliff nor corrie cannae please
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ong fit awey fae fawin oaff a cliff. Finally, we arrive ootside t
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
start further doon that sheer cliff face we're aw haudin oan tae. on page 12

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ea loch is nothin but another cliff, rocks, an grass. on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
oggy contours an sheer jagged cliff faces ay the Ben ah look agai
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
start further doon that sheer cliff face we’re aw haudin oan ta
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
At the edge o a muckle cliff. on page 21

1 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - Three Waddins and Fowr Funerals - a monologue, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
oot fur a wee walk along the cliff path. There wis a blustery wi on page 59

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
cy prospect o gaein ‘ower a cliff edge’ wi a ‘nae deal’ w
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
the devastating news that Sir Cliff Pilchard is releasing an albu(2020)

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
ister-" Th Rabbit got an awfy cliff, dropped th white kid-gloves on page 17

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
rth in a hoolie an fell aff a cliff and feenisht when a mortally on page 27

1 matches

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
curtain a watter fawin ower a cliff, an ther wis a
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
sat alane on the ridge o the cliff, watchin. She hung hir beret on page 50

1 matches

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
the brig an scraffled up the cliff an I waited bae the Billy Goa
an ah led wer gang alang the cliff tae the Chaine Memorial Park.
2 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
Cliff Pad in Islan'magee, fer examp on page 64

1 matches

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