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The word 'photos'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
photosOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.44118
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 4
SHD - Shetland 63.9 11 5
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 29.3 12 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of photos 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
glorified shoebox fuul o photos - on page 28

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
a puckle o photos fur memories on page 17
photos tae tak o new scenes on page 119

2 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
takan photos o the Cathedral, on page 137

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
l weel, no great fitever. The photos luk fun! (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ony a tourist wid stop an tak photos, baith a him an his paet bank on page 3
ar a maet, an he shaaed me da photos o his wife, an da bairns, da on page 47
s da lovely peérie dug in da photos you sent me?" Betty exclaimed on page 48
pin every noo an again ta tak photos, an look aboot him. He wis sh on page 54

4 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
fur paraglidin. Da aeriel photos on page 49
auld femily photos eence again, dis time on page 84

3 matches

Isbister, Sonny Caves aroond Shetland, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
eamie decided to tak twartree photos and dan he gied back intae da
1 matches

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
roft/fields/enclosure and old photos show dis(before aa da hooses

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
specially seeing the lungworm photos on Facebook ?? Yesterday he t(2020)
h love at first sight. Lovely photos. https://t.co/a6pHKAn30L(2020)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Fed up wi feel messages an photos on Twitter askin if they can (2014)
Aire’s jis nae eneuch photos i' folks back gairdens in sna(2018)
drivers in their post-strike photos smiling - bit fin ye speir t(2018)
Coronavirus: Photos capture Cruden Bay life in lo(2020)

General Northern

McDonald, Charlie Doric Scots Books an Poems, (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
Black an' white photos o' yer kid
1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
wis takin some photos o the steens. Jonsar wis fer
1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
As the fower o them got their photos teen they were haudin a pheas
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
apart fae Bopper? As seen the photos and looked like a bunch o'fre(2018)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@BonnyriggRose these photos sum up what the rose r all ab (2021) twitter link
EnergyScot its a miracle - 2 photos r like night and day lol (2020) twitter link
ave to say the quality of the photos were top drawer btw lol (2020) twitter link
rown85 great to see all these photos kevin n the job satisfaction (2020) twitter link
maybe they could let us see photos of there pitch - nae way it (2020) twitter link
and 7 other occurrences.

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
he looks scared tae tell us. 'Photos of me. Naked photos.' on page 29

2 matches

General Central

Eagle, Andy Lallans 56 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
alang wi mair photies ('mehr Photos' in the German) o thair heuch on page 15

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Yin o tha photos A hae o tha view fae ma wee h on page 29

1 matches

General Ulster

@Rosehill_girl tweeted
e canny manoeuvring wi’ thon photos! I’m delighted you’re enjoy (2021) twitter link