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The word 'consonants'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
consonantsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.82210
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland 81.4 14 3
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 consonants in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
ars thir vooels roondan, thir consonants clippan, thir wirds sweetchan on page 84

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine An Excerpt From Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Future Fantasy, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Orkney, poetry
s thair vooels roondan, thair consonants clippan,
1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Roseanne Moder Dy, (Polygon 2019 ISBN: 978-1846974878) Shetland, poetry
de percussion O waves apo its consonants, unravel de treads o de sowl on page 14

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
aebody ta hear dy castanettin consonants on page 19

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
anguages haes baith vowels an consonants. on page 22
2.1.2 Consonants on page 25
ted syllables, wi up tae tree consonants (C) afore an efter da core, a on page 27
Shaetlan haes lang an short consonants an aa. Agein, a lang consonan on page 28
taak /ta:k/. Lang or stressed consonants is shaan wi a doobled-up grap on page 32
Also on pages 63, 67
11 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
is kept da hidmaist - n afore consonants, as wis da wye it wis ey been

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
it maks vowels, consonants, souchs on page 75

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Crumpled consonants, on page 37

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
t when em made ti cheenge meh consonants on page 16

1 matches

Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
wi its rouch gutturals, sherp consonants an pure vowels, is a bittie m on page vii

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
ae leids chenges mair nor the consonants. on page 63

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
consonants as haurd as a haundshake - on page 5

1 matches

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