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The word 'flights'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
flightsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus41311
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
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 flights in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
flights o linoleum-clad spiral stairc on page 7

1 matches

Mid Northern B

Riddell, Conor San Diego, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
tae the airport then changed flights a couple o times. Bit a thoch
1 matches

General Northern

@daleser23 tweeted
d on monday. Had to change ma flights(2013)
ma dad n telt um tae look at flights for next week. #fuckinshit(2013)
l be good games. Awa tae book flights(2014)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ly ah throw him doon a couple flights ae stairs. And straight awey on page 146

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ve_ easyjet ffs - downmarket flights - what do u expect lol (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
lcony. She wad rin up the twa flights o concrete stairs, luggage an
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
ail at each turn, jumping the flights like a teenager. Once, someon on page 14

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
essary for long and sustained flights." But as can be seen frae thi on page 69

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@jax6754 tweeted
wish! A wis even checkin oot flights & trains fae Scotland, but to(2015)

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
at 6-4. @greg_colin puled the flights on ti help the team oot unlik(2012)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
dom cause Ryanair wur floggin flights fir a fiver plus fees. The ba
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