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The word 'listens'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
listensOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.42412
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
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 12.7 5 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.6 11 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of listens in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
, the coothie fock, and Eynar listens, ootward, noddan. "No bad, ya on page 75

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ght and if wae miss hid Kenny listens on line through the week. In on page 48

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
He nivir listens tae em on page 145

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
Education Meenister Listens tae Cross Pairty Group on Sco
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
ith a single register…" She listens for an reflecks shiftin regis
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
s o the period. Merry Courant listens in turn tae forspeakers o the
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
sing aw the time. But naebody listens tae me, even though wur alwis
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
hasin aw the time. But naebdy listens tae me, even though wur ayewi
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
ear. He either disnae listen, listens an disnae dae anythin tae hel on page 8

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ear. He either disnae listen, listens an disnae dae anythin tae hel
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
ma Maw whit Rodrick plays or listens tae, because music's aw jist on page 31

1 matches

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
She listens tae her mither speakin. on page 3

9 matches

McCabe, Alan Lallans 73 - Whan the wind blaws, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
han aw the music that naebody listens tae on page 46

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Watt, George T. Lallans 82 - Caul Stane, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
fur naewan listens tae the speirits on page 24

1 matches

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
and listens wi aa his micht on page 22

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
st atween tha twa o ye. If he listens tae ye, ye hae wun yer brithe on page 9

1 matches

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