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The word 'grains'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
grainsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.41110
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of grains in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
A billion grains o sand. A hunder thoosand mig
1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
lik an ayre wi coontless grains o sand. on page 47

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I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
Hit's designed tae gie peerie grains o accessible information aboo on page 21

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Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
me and she made ma chuck some grains ower ma left shooder intae th
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Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
gh I canna see it, I can hear grains o sand trinkling against the
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(South) East Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 70 - Hame-combin, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
‘to finnd the swart grains in amang the snowcem-
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Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
hairstin by ingaitherin orra grains. Naebody stealt, naebody yamm
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
disappeart ahint the curtain. Grains cud be heard fae there, an Ra
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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
she sabs an souchs an hideous grains o my fellow prisoners, melled on page 31

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General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
an sic things as meat, bacon, grains, butter, sugar, cheese, eggs
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South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
when sorrow is countless as grains of sand? on page 73

1 matches

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