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The word 'scarecrow'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scarecrowOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.555
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of scarecrow in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
mack stuck up a fierce-lukkan scarecrow - hid seun lay in bits on th on page 16

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
great Doric wirdie fit means Scarecrow.(2014)

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
medical mungerel: a surgical scarecrow. Ye're the United Nations, Pa on page 40

1 matches

General Central

@MartinBroon tweeted
Prototype Calvin Whitshisname scarecrow? ??. ????. ??????????????. ??(2020)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
hae an Ulster Scots wurd for "scarecrow"? Caa them "tattie bogles" up (2014) twitter link