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The word 'glistenin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
glisteninOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of glistenin in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
Wi glistenin teeth, in raas; on page 20

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
iks oot yunder daday. Ower 20 glistenin idda sun #Shetland http://t.c(2013)

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
r feet up, Loch Morlich wis a glistenin pool in the distance. As
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
"An' ye hae a pair o' glistenin' een on page 14

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
lla hue ay the the settin sun glistenin oan her soft skin. Her luxuri
1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
rn she wis awa wi the choaker glistenin roun hir neck. on page 14

1 matches

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