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The word 'flickerin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
flickerinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.51815
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of flickerin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ape O a tractir, wi its sixty flickerin cunnles. on page 20

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
shape o a man jist ayont the flickerin licht. Jessie wasted nae mair
ellt her it hid jist been the flickerin o the lantern at the tail o h
2 matches

(South) East Central

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
icht, fluorescent lights wurr flickerin in awbdy’s een, blindin the
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
ae pee aroon midnicht and saw flickerin telly-licht comin fae the liv
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
the same time. Bi the licht o flickerin torches the enthusiasm fer th on page 103

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
t oot on thon auld bed in the flickerin cannle licht he lookit like a on page 93

2 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
lik her ither name. The furst flickerin flames o knowledge were latti
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
Withoot sae much as even flickerin his eyes oaff the telly he li
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
flickerin light, among a gaggle ae thes on page 39

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
roon the dome an the answers flickerin at the edges ay the vision. on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Anither nicht masel by fires flickerin shaddaes. on page 24

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
o caunles that were giein aff flickerin shaddaes. Skailed aw ower the on page 125

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
awkward eye contact under the flickerin light o a streetlamp, and she on page 33

1 matches

Curt_Kenobi Mates, (archiveofourown.org 2016) Central, prose
h's dreamin 'cos his eyes are flickerin beneath the lids. Ah wonder w
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
flanked each side o a screen flickerin wi blak an white lines. Hir m on page 42

1 matches

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