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The word 'flo'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
floOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.487
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of flo in Corpus

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Orkney

Flett, Alison Harbour, (Scottish Poetry Library 2004) Orkney, poetry
thi ebb an flo
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
hol haes a kaindlee vernaclir flo. Isobel Gunn hersel, a maigra
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
But his luck it wis oot, Flo said fit's that cloot That's on page 15

1 matches

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
I wiz telt leave ‘em tae th flo’ers dee n th sha’s turn n a(2020)

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
ide in the close o yer Auntie Flo on page 121

1 matches

General Central

Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
t, and that refrain, gil-le...flo-ur, they aurally become an aa on page 64

1 matches

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
of rabbit flying everywhere. Flo was frantically ripping it up (2021) twitter link