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The word 'pebble'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pebbleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.797
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 3
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 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 pebble in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
A treasure tae tak wae a pebble ur twa on page 17

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Climmeran up the pebble dash on page 148

1 matches

Forkin, Ellen Sea o Dunder, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
O pebble ower pebble
1 matches

Shetland

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
something peerie. Lik a smaa pebble at da boddom o a pool o water
d, till he cam upa dat peerie pebble. Hit stood afore him, starin
2 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
hen hid rid the writin on the pebble dash (Young Young Cumbie ya b
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e. They’d scoured alang the pebble beach afore, seein the ripple
1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Lift a pebble on the cairn on page 97

1 matches

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