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The word 'gales'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
galesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.61210
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 4
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gales in Corpus

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Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gallows Ha - The Weather Dance, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Thursday gales deterred the creeler as on page 28

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
The winter gales are here again - the drivan on page 75

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
hervest gales. on page 58

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Thursday gales deterred the creeler as on page 154

1 matches

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
s. Ready to brace the pending gales. on page 61

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Ower the Grampian hills far gales aften howl on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
anels, a bield agin the gurly gales o sizzens that war tiltin aje
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Ere's been nae gales tae blaw them awa.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
when it wiz blawn full force gales n the rain wiz chucking it do
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Through frenzied gales, or doldrums that becalm, on page 20

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
n in his gub, they erupted in gales o’ semi-sympathetic laughte
1 matches

Ayrshire

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Through frenzied gales, or doldrums that becalm,
1 matches

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