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The word 'closser'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
closserOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4138
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 1
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 5
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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 closser in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
pe intae color, an noo sheu's closser on page 18
wis fower year sailan curves closser tae the galactic centre. Sheu on page 108
nisan an reorganisan, coories closser, fer in this theoretiecal bed on page 142

4 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
-fir staet, an that wey hid's closser tae the leid o Westminster as
1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
l uncan thing ta see, an guid closser ta watch dem, an juist as shà on page 78

1 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
wisna burnin up. Whan he gied closser ta fin oot whit wye dis wis, on page 15

2 matches

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
Da closser dey sailed tae da Arctic, da
1 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
alect - an here we’r comin closser ta whit we actually mean whin
1 matches

Nicholson, Hannah Samhain - Usher in the Dark - Minni-Babbi, (Leopard Arts 2021) Shetland, prose
e atween da twa, an as it cam closser tae da shore we realised at d
1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 82 - Troke, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
t es pynt, Fergie draas eyven closser; an his vyce aa but vainishes on page 90

1 matches

General Central

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
as chaunce allous we'll leuk closser at sindrie airts an pairts wh on page 4

1 matches

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