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The word 'paitren'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
paitrenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.275
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
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 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 paitren in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
. Inga senses a chaenge i'the paitren o his concentraetion, an wait on page 24
r the yotun's faem: colour an paitren ayont a artist's mare. Helix, on page 156

2 matches

West Central

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
octor's Messan set a Scottish paitren on page 139

1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
deas tae dawdle an admire the paitren o steel rhododendrons protect
1 matches

General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
she saw nou at this kythed a paitren at haed follaed thaim doun th on page 26

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
: up tae aboot 1450, we fin a paitren at is ordinar afore the intro
1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
ist, an our days fell intil a paitren.
1 matches

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