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The word 'fluid'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fluidOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.51816
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 3
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of fluid in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Fluid movement o man and horse on page 141

1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
an time is sumthin fluid at keeps movin. on page 56

1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
kent for causin the city tae fluid, until the Great Fluid o Vale on page 3

2 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
e said liquid fitba instead o fluid fitba. Is liquid fitba a thin(2020)

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Aathing in fluid equipoise: on page 57

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
wattir-syde residentin, abuin fluid lavell an hyne awaw frae dird
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
fae the fluid o dreel sent his wey on page 45

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
bang that cam doon afore the fluid on page 17

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
back doon an catchin it in a fluid, wheelin motion. ‘Did ye fu
1 matches

Ayrshire

Neill, Willie Lallans 59 - Christian Henry Divertimento, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
the quaich an caa'd it in the fluid, on page 10

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
d the day he coughed up brown fluid thae didnae look like any kin on page 44

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Set skail an fluid at nocht, spurred up the naig on page 24
O fluid-tide spits saut bree, whaur l on page 75

2 matches

South East (Borders)

Stevenson, Gerda Kilmeny, (Scottish Language Center 2021) Southern - Scottish Borders, prose
the plague. We hud a dreidfu fluid, like nane we’d seen afore
1 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
fy bag, witter proofs. Plenty fluid and food. Gid Walking boots a(2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
She sipped bak the velvetie fluid an hir ma's wirds rattled thr on page 30

1 matches

General Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Proota Field, (Facebook 2021) Ulster, poetry
eek before and reeked o Jeyes fluid cleaner
1 matches

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