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The word 'meters'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
metersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7126
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 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 meters in Corpus

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Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Six feet, twa meters on page 158

2 matches

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
u fae standing back 2 fucking meters. His face ????(2020)
n, but cannae stay fecken two meters away fae me ! Sláinte ???? h(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
- adult spectaters must b 4 meters away from the touchline is qu (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
he said, One hundred and five meters high and it's the only buildi on page 162

1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e worry ye, but we stayed two meters apart. Ye’ll be awricht. Th
1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ht ilk haurd surface doon Twa meters (a coo forbye a coffin lenth)(2020)
d surfaces wi flash 2/day Twa meters that is same as the bind o a (2020)
ht with flash athing doon Twa meters a coo forbye a coffin lenth d(2020)
ht ilk haurd surface doon Twa meters (a coo forbye a coffin lenth)(2020)
dicht athin aroon ye doon Twa meters a coo forby a coffin length f(2020)