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The word 'lavender'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lavenderOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus18.7627
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central 239.7 54 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
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 lavender in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
e hoose. There war boorichs o lavender an
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
aw her clients. Cool lemon an lavender colours. Nothin tae unsettle. on page 1

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
er an went through twa bars o lavender soap an wore oot the scrubbin on page 26

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
s tae play wi. It's no funny, Lavender. Tak thon smirk aff yer fizzo on page 63
'It's no fair,' Lavender said. 'How come she can dae i on page 69
ds gaed up. They belanged tae Lavender, a wee laddie cried Nigel and on page 70
Fae the third row o desks, Lavender said, 'It's braw. Ah like it. on page 73
new pals wis the lassie cried Lavender. Richt fae the first day o sc on page 95
Also on pages 96, 98, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 106, 111, 112, 122, 124, 128, 130, 131, 133, 134, 155, 160
54 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
k in this room and smell that lavender hingy she keeps by the door. on page 6
e door makes the room reek ae lavender. Every time wi that fuckin sm on page 14

2 matches

General Central

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
nd rose watter, hazelnut oil, lavender and a wheen ither essential o

@Chazzbat tweeted
Ah bocht Febreeze lavender air freshener. Ah've jist yai(2020)

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