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The word 'dresses'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dressesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.51813
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dresses in Corpus

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Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Green and purple dresses flittan cross the sky on page 90

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Harper, Edith Legacy, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2021) Doric, poetry
ur me – Ah mind thon bonnie dresses still...
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
She think o' him an so she dresses in bleck on page 91

2 matches

McDonald, Charlie Doric Scots Books an Poems, (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
For bigger joabs like makin dresses an' frocks
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
shaw'd the dead in their last dresses;
shaw'd the deid in their last dresses;
2 matches

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
alls of Bruar. Aw the lassies dresses n skirts wurr gettin’ blawn
ies wurr awready wearin their dresses n skirts like a belt.
their short revealin sequined dresses wit they paid a fiver fur oot
3 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
nothin tae dae wi the way she dresses or the stuff she's intae or e on page 169

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
a seamstress repairin wumen's dresses. They hud.two lassies, Angela on page 37

1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
ause A dinnae hae dwams fu ae dresses an cake, on page 12

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ate up oan one salary. No one dresses their children in second-hand on page 89

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
rica as a backgrun. The white dresses o the menfowk, the red stoori on page 91

1 matches

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cationScot My braw wee lassie dresses up as...? #WorldBookDay https(2019)

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
red, velvet dresses an cairied fur muffs, an the on page 24
photograph wur weemen in lang dresses. an wide-brimmed hats; tae th on page 58

2 matches

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