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The word 'helmet'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
helmetOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.61511
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
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 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 helmet in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
ks. A karl sportan some kinno helmet (but maed o some kinno metal? on page 45

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
phase in the soup plate steel helmet. Ye could only weer the TOS b
troops the coal skuttle steel helmet and Douglas wiz guardin a puc
agglin he managed tae get the helmet fae the Jerry for a packet o
t clipped the underside o the helmet and tracked roon the inside p
4 matches

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
his helmet, bowld de Bohun, his heid ana on page 36

1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
bad Quine, whaurs yer riding helmet?(2018)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
t her bike an a luminous pink helmet, an a padlock, an loadsa othe on page 42

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
Haunbuffed, the siller helmet o that black on page 112

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
The Kaiser's helmet, fishin rods for sale in the on page 43

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
at draigit oot frae ablow his helmet. Sae this wis the great Clave on page 38

1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
e kartie track, stick oan yer helmet an' press yer pedal tae the m on page

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
r loom, she pit on her bronze helmet an her breistplate that wis d
wi rage. He pit on his plumed helmet an sailed aff in a ship fou o
2 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
rland_EU Whur is your cycling helmet? Surley that should be most i(2015)

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