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The word 'cobbles'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cobblesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3108
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
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.8 3 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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of cobbles in Corpus

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General Northern

Petrie, Kimberley Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Letter Tae Ma Younger Sel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
Teeterin an totterin ower cobbles on page 25

1 matches

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
t granite slabs laid oot like cobbles on page 39

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
an cackelt ower the cobbles. Nae haun on page 112

2 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Skitin on the cobbles on page 120

1 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
Comyn's stowen meir on the cobbles ootby, on page 35

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
r kis it is a novella. Wi its cobbles, granite hooses, thrangit slu on page 120

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
strikin sperks frae the cobbles, on page 22

1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
e ae zombies amblin along the cobbles, and nip doon a side street t
A’m aa bit runnin doon the cobbles roon the auld toon centre, an
2 matches

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