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The word 'clocks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
clocksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.51815
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of clocks in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Higgie the Codd clocks aff on page 45

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The clocks gan forward on page 65

1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Birsie’s Brunt Bed, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
aalies. Forkitails, sclaters, clocks, worms; he glaeps dem laek sw
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
inno a peace atween them. The clocks hid tae be wun up, the auld g
1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
ffects. Electrical storms mak clocks stop an run back the wye, fow on page 118

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
an sits herself doon. The she clocks the scheme maw ah've been huv on page 24
mash it intae mah palm. Disco clocks this an whispers suhin in Mo' on page 26

2 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
lescence of darkness' when he clocks me huvin a swatch. on page 7

1 matches

Ayrshire

Wilson, Rab Lallans 76 - The Sycamore at Calton, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
turn back tides, or turn back clocks.
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
lescence of darkness' when he clocks me huvin a swatch. on page 8

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Reid clocks in the roses hunt, on page 82

1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
in me the time in a room fu o clocks ?(2020)

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
run or were they watching the clocks? ???? (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
e wather, interwab an virused clocks. on page 77

1 matches

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
the bar, the silvered mirror clocks me lookin, checks ma every mo on page 24

1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
It's got a lok o' wee clocks an' switches on page 26

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
Mind an wheech the clocks back the nicht. Gin ye dinnae (2015) twitter link
skifter skites owre: Slemish clocks thonder. http://t.co/qKCstTyW (2015) twitter link