elastic | Occurrences normalised per million words | Occurrences | Authors |
---|---|---|---|
Total Corpus | 5.2 | 17 | 11 |
ORK - Orkney | 9.9 | 1 | 1 |
SHD - Shetland | 5.8 | 1 | 1 |
TON - Tonge | |||
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) | |||
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle) | |||
MNA - Mid Northern A | 9.8 | 3 | 1 |
MNB - Mid Northern B | |||
SNO - South Northern | |||
ABN - Aberdeen | 21.9 | 2 | 1 |
DOR - General Northern | |||
NEC - North East Central | |||
SEC - (South) East Central | 7.6 | 3 | 2 |
WCE - West Central | |||
DUN - Dundee | |||
EDN - Edinburgh | |||
GLA - Glasgow | 9.1 | 2 | 2 |
AYR - Ayrshire | |||
LAL - General Central | 6.6 | 5 | 3 |
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) |
Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
lug, "ye can hear the knicker elastic snappin fir miles aroon." on page 14
ap back the same. It's nae as elastic, like. If ye think aboot it - on page 69
2 matches
Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
d winna bide on. We'll put an elastic band roond it. Haud it still. on page 67
2 matches
Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
And no verra elastic. on page 77
1 matches
Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
e laddies are gey booncie and elastic. They streetch like daft. Sae on page 154
1 matches
Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
, as though she wis a whang o elastic bein pulled up the wey by inv on page 45
1 matches
@ThonJacobite tweeted
answer Gordon is 'a very thin elastic band and some ower yased blue(2021)
d tae string a big streetch o elastic through the sleeves o ma duff(2020)