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The word 'roadside'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
roadsideOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.31412
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 roadside 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

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I stood bi the roadside and waited, aal me plans fur on page 41

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
he staggered off t'waard The roadside shadows, on page 6

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
rescued dis peerie moot fae a roadside ditch. Hope she survives http(2016)
red o me lookin at da flora o roadside verges and yarnin wi aabody d(2014)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
rasp wi'd pued fae the roadside. "Wi micht nivwver bi rich, C on page 45

1 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Berryhill, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
aad doon, haad doon that lang roadside.
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
rks tae a cottar hoose at the roadside far the neep-park cottars bed
aimly happened tae lan bi the roadside hoose, they war kent as 'the
2 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tartan Tourism nae mair, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
he Silver Birks thrang at the roadside, the saumon loupin oot the sa
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
him wis the man sittin be the roadside, greetin.
1 matches

Ayrshire

Wilson, Rab Lallans 76 - The Sycamore at Calton, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
Then, noticed in the verdant roadside verge,
1 matches

General Central

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Land o Fallen Empires, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
spill yer wame in thi roadside crater, that's aw yer kin on page 76

1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
for our denner at a roadside diner on the edge o a Georgia
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
Here by the roadside, new noises are heard. Nae ca on page 22

1 matches

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