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The word 'shafts'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shaftsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.276
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of shafts in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
Ane in the shafts on page 119

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
her keep an staun atween the shafts o the twa wheeled milk float,
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
get a yark in the ribs wi the shafts. Jonsar Eck wis
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ee that. There wis horizontal shafts cut intae a heich, stey rock
by an Bill lawbourt in daurk shafts an warslet wi the Auld Langag
2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
le o the stane flair, an sent shafts o siller piercin throu the bl on page 22

1 matches

General Central

Grace, Reyzl Eemis Stane 2 - Late Efternuin in the Hermitage, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, poetry
as it micht, the shafts faw nairae. Aw lines come on page 6

1 matches

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