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The word 'sessions'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sessionsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.72919
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 25.1 5 3
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 13.1 10 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 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 sessions in Corpus

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Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
ng forward to watching films, sessions with old pals, picking crowbe(2019)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
choose between some sessions on the high-powered beds or o on page 81

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
id massage maanie; hae reglar sessions wi wir spliteyn specialist an on page 12

1 matches

Shepherd, Robbie Harknin tae the braw souns, (John Benjamin 2000) Doric, newspaper
aboot in the 70s, wi informal sessions at the famed Hole-in-the-Wa p
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
ontributions tae Portsoy folk sessions. Thing I like about this clip (2022) twitter link

@fittiecrooners tweeted
! Got tae stop this efterneen sessions!! https://t.co/hAs888QH6m(2016)

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
promptu poetry readins, music sessions an historie lectures regularl on page 107

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
There wad be nae mair drinkin sessions.
Beatrice had mair practice sessions wi Raggle whanever he wis abo
2 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
They call their class slots 'sessions' n we call ours 'periods: Yi on page 36

1 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
w you, Daisy. We've had a few sessions now and I dont feel I've got on page 1
p Steven once in our previous sessions. No, sorry, wait, there was t on page 10

2 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ish pish!' Bareley remembered sessions, anxious recordings, push, pu on page 3

2 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
ertainment an for hot winchin sessions as teenagers. Inrush at Numme on page 20

1 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
fur views and durin probation sessions, local authorities, organisat on page 58

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
The kirk sessions (equate wi the Inglis parish on page 40

2 matches

Curt_Kenobi Mates, (archiveofourown.org 2016) Central, prose
kes us think ay the therapist sessions ah had tae go tae. N all ah w
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
tae be awesome fir me wi your sessions in ma schedule!? xxx(2015)
ime?. Looking tae book couple sessions by Mon 11th Jan. xxx(2015)
by next Tues morning tae book sessions wi you! ?XXX(2015)
ff! Sozz no been on touch fir sessions yet but.....ma schedule someh(2016)
along way since oor coaching sessions. xxx(2017)

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
this yin at my Music Matters sessions. Haha ??(2019)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
e afore Lockdoon Ah did Scots sessions wi weans in Aiburdeenshire an(2020)
k an aw, seen the SBT virtual sessions fund noo oot?(2020)