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The word 'crosses'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
crossesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4118
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 crosses in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
n the West Mainland. A merlin crosses a field in a January gale, ei
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
eryone was skyed plus the twa crosses tae the back post in the firs (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
es oot oan a coal bunker. Tom crosses the gairden heidin fur the li on page 1

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
ach step you'll take from now crosses a frontier, on page 57

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@rycammy95 @JamieCrawfordd ur crosses intae the box were sublime m8 (2020) twitter link

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
Maw crosses hur arms. 'God gave me ma cro on page 3
he hill at the heidstones and crosses, on page 49
ugh the rows o heidstones and crosses. Naeb'dy but a Stirling would on page 59
la Marie is wan o the biggest crosses ah've hud tae bear. She micht on page 80

4 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 79 - The Ratton, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
aw. The fower new, wee widden crosses in the green nearby war in se on page 78

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 75 - Gie Us Back Oor Place Names, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, prose
i nae connection wi aipils or crosses, an cartographers hae bauchil
1 matches

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