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The word 'ruins'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ruinsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus82625
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 3
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 2
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 69.5 5 4
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ruins in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
bert Stewart's Palace lies in ruins, owld and grey. on page 37

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Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
no grotesques amongst the ruins. on page 28

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Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
In the ruins on page 93

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Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
watchin fowk howkin amon aal ruins? Yer Mither will deeve ye abo on page 94

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Mid Northern B

Dunnett, Nathan The Auld Asylum, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
d there in front o us wis the ruins o the auld hospital. A wis a
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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
ult ti hide wirsels amang the ruins till aa the towrists gaed ham
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Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
. Further oot, ye can see the ruins o Cairnbulg Castle through th
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General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
The ruins of life wi' youth misspent on page 106

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(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
We left the ruins standing But drained them of on page 58

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
is hystit abuin the monastery ruins on the tap o Monte Cassino an
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@DavidJWood2 tweeted
oo. Totally different, and in ruins.(2020)

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
ont in mairble, taen frae the ruins, on page 87

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Edinburgh

Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
lin that hings ower clearance ruins lik haar ower the braeheids;
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Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Contortit in the ruins o an alien ire, on page 83

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General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
Their hame in ruins, the Baudelaires had tae reco on page 13

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Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
The innocent frae hame, whaur ruins breed on page 30

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McNulty, Victoria Flit, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
The ruins of that machine
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@changed_days tweeted
a get Tom tae fuck petition! Ruins gems fur me! (2021) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Amongst the ruins their melody plays on page 22

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Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
hourt the Hoscote Rig, ir the ruins o ae hoose an ae byre
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South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
trailin debris fae the ruins on page 9

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Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ruins o hoose sae mony yince cried on page 34
ruins o hoose sae mony yince cried on page 40

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McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
wad no be ruins, on page 87

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Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
the old Roman Forum, and the ruins are literally sittin jist oot
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East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
l-farrant nichts an stane-waa ruins on page 4

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