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The word 'docks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
docksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.12714
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 95.6 9 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 docks in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Astrid docks on page 3
wind), so whan at laast sheu docks at Lightness Bay, weel by the on page 106

2 matches

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
In a bar near the docks on page 7

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
n he ... didn he droond in da docks in London?" on page 18
Bruce, lack some hoor fae da docks a London." An he stampit oot on page 34

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ff tae biggins in Lunnon, tae docks at Sebastopol, tae a Japanee
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
alang the bannisters on their docks...
1 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
ed back in 2012. Noo doon the docks we the rest o them. https://t(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
the Torry battery side o' the docks wee o'er auld fishing rods & (2017)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
ony in ma gairden onywy, jist Docks an Dandies.(2019)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
been gone fur a swim doon the docks." on page 164
find doon Leith docks. on page 173

2 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
’s lectra pouer is in Leith Docks
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
the countin house doun by the docks an wis regularly entrustit w; on page 34
cuid be a fell roch lot. The docks were nivver the kind o place on page 55
s een in the auld days at the docks had aye been pea an ham soup. on page 57
an dirty joab. Awbodie on the docks made a fair hantle o siller b on page 59
g workit as a fishwife in the docks, steppit forrit fae the shrin on page 94
Also on pages 104, 110
9 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
“The fourth yin’s by the docks,
1 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
crouch in waitin in among the docks thit rattled teir dry seed in
The grass an docks an willowherb were high an dr
2 matches

General Central

Robertson, Sine Lallans 59 - Newsins fae SLRC, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
thesay, warkin in jute mills, docks an fish hooses an ae wifie ha on page 87

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Than an nou — poverty, makkin dae, an leukin oot for ilk ither, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
fishin boats comin in tae the docks. He wad gaither up a sack o d
1 matches

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