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The word 'frogs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
frogsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3145
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 46.5 8 2
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 55.6 4 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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of frogs in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Froggy smoorikins, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
A voar highlight is frogs gadderin in da loch tae laeve
dere when I wis a young trow. Frogs hiv been in Shetland for litt
amorphosis fae tadpoles intae frogs is laek naethin idder. So I t
I axed him aboot da history o frogs in Shetland an if he kent ony
hunder year ago dere wis nae frogs in Shetland. Human folk took
7 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Gairdins I Sand. Gazillions o frogs and frogspawn and a few tadpo(2016)

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Cause sometimes frogs are preferable compared wae p on page 72

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
Dancin Frogs on page 35

4 matches

General Ulster

Ullans Speakers Association Nursery Rhymes for Weans, (Ulster-Scots Agency 2008 ISBN: 978-0955791697) Ulster, weans
Frogs an snells, on page 32

1 matches

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