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The word 'sheds'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shedsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus41310
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 sheds in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
'In ower the sheds, he's keepin kegs o chemicals on page 84

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
t oot ower a backie fu o coal sheds an fooshtit trock. The chaume
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
their sheds wi winter fuel. Jonsar Eck ke
d appear oot o the twa middle sheds bit the twa Jeannies. Each
Och weel at's the sheds a'a locked up, the ile change
3 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ie bunkers that are under the sheds as now spotted this the day i(2016)

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
gles ahent its disjaskit bike sheds. Best o aa, yon bangster o a on page 95

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
h seen him oot behind the bin sheds. on page 169

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
A tear it sheds at daw insteid o us. on page 22

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
In the backgairden sheds that lean on page 57
n gaes doon at the back o the sheds on page 97

2 matches

General Central

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
hed the wey A jaw lik a snake sheds skin. Muive tae a big city. ( on page 4

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
in sheds or wooden kists on page 45

1 matches

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