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The word 'films'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
filmsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus134331
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 3
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 31.5 3 1
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 2
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 20.5 4 3
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 15.8 12 9
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of films in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
o looking forward to watching films, sessions with old pals, pick(2019)

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
@itsJuliaHardy What films yun? (2018) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
veesitors. Brian hid gien him films o Gracelan an Elvis an dolphi
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Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
Mabel loved tae watch her films on the vhs video. She’d got
baith o them loved Doris Day films an mony’s the nicht they sp
2 matches

Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
o the kind ye see in aal war films. “Michty this wid dee ma fi
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
asel, but loved keekin at the films. https://t.co/TK3olxEp4Z (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern B

Stewart, David Catch-Up Chapter 163 - Planning the Mystery Tour., (Facebook 2024) Doric, prose
e, he'll hae tae study TV and films fae the 1960's. Ye see- there
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia North East filmmakker feart for the futur o Doric, (Doric Future 2019) Doric, blog
is warkin on a series o Doric films aboot the cultur o the North
ill tak on the task o creatin films aboot ither local areas sic a
As weel as makin films, Jill has her ain Doric YouTu
3 matches

General Northern

@AMaxwell54 tweeted
ih Scots leid an' files maks films fur ih TV! (2020) twitter link

@72redz1903 tweeted
@Poorboy_stories Een o those films ye have tae watch, like Jaws, (2020) twitter link

@fittiecrooners tweeted
crap nowadays. Fars a yon gud films(2016)
Jist like yon Jaws films say - jist as ye thought it (2018)

(South) East Central

Allan, Alasdair Lallans 102 - Defenestration, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
en the government information films on the television, telling yo on page 86

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
snae yin ae those Walt Disney films we were makin here. Yae ken t on page 22
They cheesy Disney films set at high school alweys mak on page 185

2 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
it, like the gangsters in the films. on page 26

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
ed up tae be. Ye mind sílent films? Buster Keaton an that? Man,
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
o the day his regularly shown films o sic testes leed tae Pairlia on page 56

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
in, nor did the wireless, nor films, on page 10

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ad get the allusions tae auld films. He flickit on past the spoke
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
sittin aboot aw day, watchin films an that; ah need tae get a jo on page 59

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Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
we'll meet again like in the films but we'll be even mair grown on page 3

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
y wan in the Laurel and Hardy films and starts tae scratch his ea
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
straicht oot o the James Bond films that we saw later in the same on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Shepherd, J. Barrie Lallans 82 - Glenluce Abbey , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
frae records, films, ither chaunce encoonters. on page 56

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
hildcare an be bairns' TV and films. Ae thing at sums it aa up, f on page 56

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
t should be. Ah like American films. Folk cannae hae ony pleasure on page 46

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 71 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
alleries an pictur-hooses, an films is bein baith shawn an made;
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
om bydit strang. Sustained by films, official propaganda, a culti
Lifes o Ithers” an siclike films set i the dour, grim Communis
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Facebook link ( 2019) Central
... No the big yins ye see in films ... Thur frae Brazil. Shud ye

@DABArbuckle tweeted
in whackjob fae aw the horror films ever made, ye'd feenish up wa(2020)

@raiphsays tweeted
Arthur Oh a wul! A luv korean films an a huvnae seen at wan. Bit (2020)
ly, aw singin carols, watchin films taegevver an a braw dinner :D(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
cannae comment oan Star Trek films Ah'm afraid. Ye'll need tae a (2019) twitter link
o ony other iconic lines fae films that should be translatit int (2019) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
An thon o us whae love wir films will on page 24

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@StuartPoet tweeted
Scots channel, paper, exams, films etc. It's whit only language (2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Gibson, Darren Oul money, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
ir naethin bit wurds fae oul films an buiks. Bit tae oniebodie b
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