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The word 'movie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
movieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.91610
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 23 5 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 movie 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

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
tal transparencies; an entire movie on page 25

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Ah somehow feel a bit like a movie a star. But then this single on page 147

1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
he rusty railing spikes. In a movie, there’d be a squelch soond
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
atchin Santa Claus the shitey movie. on page 39
gaunnae end up in a Hollywood movie. on page 169

5 matches

Edinburgh

Robb, Fraser Lallans 61 - Jimmy Bond, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, weans
But the Goldeneye movie on page 9

1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
ion to a fucking Sean Connery movie ah’v seen a dozen times, es
1 matches

General Central

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
be a rod pictur (at's a road movie tae sum fowk). Here the haill on page 91

1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
"Hollywood" is nae mare! The movie Mannaquin wis one o ma fave m(2014)
rgo Twilight or Angel fir the movie The Lost Boys! X(2015)
kwhitehall Canae wait fir the movie tae come oot. BUT WHY OH WHY (2015)

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
Since movie’ back tae ma hyme! That’s u(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Or laddish movie. on page 49

1 matches

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