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The word 'quilt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
quiltOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.1239
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 87.6 14 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 quilt in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
aft silkyness o the patchwirk quilt, admirin the rainbow o colour on page 79
ar as he cud see: a patchwirk quilt o green, gold an broon rollin on page 92

2 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
stuck a leg oot fae aneth the quilt. Perishin, he thocht, an pull on page 29

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
A rare patchwork quilt on page 189

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Countyside dis look like a quilt.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
he result meant hidin unner a quilt, greetin, in the wee sma oors
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
en though there wis a waarm quilt, she felt the need o weirin a
than he got haud o a tattert quilt, a chackie bag, an eventually
“Bring a quilt the nicht,” he telt her in
on a meal ark. He drappit the quilt that wis wrappit roon his sho
his buit unner the edge o his quilt an fished oot his Muse fae th
14 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
e the bundelt cotton, wool an quilt. She pullt the draa-string at
1 matches

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
@trax_cherry That's a braw quilt.(2020)

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
The paiterns o the quilt ir lyke the swaws on the rive
1 matches

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