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The word 'meter'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
meterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.588
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
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
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 meter 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.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Ah'm the poor owid meter reader, at your door when you on page 83

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
tae quaarantine wae the meter off, on page 9

1 matches

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
geey Hiv ye nae tried yon twa meter folding rules?(2020)

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Saw Max Clifford's Polygraph Meter, Gang clean aff the scale! on page 48

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
apsed and shat himsel aboot a meter before the finish line. But t
1 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
driver reaches an arm tae the meter. His forearm is splashed wi a on page 18

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
But jist yer basic close, gas meter, bare on page 88

1 matches

General Central

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 58 - Gairm review, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
(lik Alexander Gray) hain the meter an rhyme o the German; an in on page 126

1 matches

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