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The word 'skirts'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
skirtsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.32719
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 4
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 8 6 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of skirts in Corpus

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Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Is the wind whipped at hir skirts on page 151

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Skirts wisna in me wardrobe on page 100

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
airish, spreidin oot her braa skirts frae the braes at the fit o t
o sicht o aabody, drew up her skirts. Fit she saw drave the pech c
An wheechin up her skirts, she stoored lang inno the ne
cle Jim fermed Widside at the skirts o the growin toun. Uncle Doug
ther button-up buits wi heavy skirts an petticoats for aa that the
5 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
he wis riggit oot in the lang skirts an apron o a Nor-East fish wi
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
der or is Holly Willoughby’s skirts gettin shorter wi each new ep(2018)

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
n she cairrit, hickin' up her skirts, till ye cud see near aw she' on page 18

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 67 - Clash fae Cauld Hill, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Juist for weirin scuffed skirts on page 39

1 matches

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
uar. Aw the lassies dresses n skirts wurr gettin’ blawn up… no
wready wearin their dresses n skirts like a belt.
2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
easter road - they shood pit skirts oan - bunch o wee lost lassi (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
n Kelly Marie wur wearin mini-skirts an had thir faces caked in ma on page 37

1 matches

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
ns an they used tae tuck thir skirts intae thir pants before they on page 76

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Short skirts and aw wi knees as nakit as p on page 25
Or skirts, or whitiver clung tae yer we on page 79

2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ouders, she had kiltit up her skirts an trampit on barefuit, singi on page 67

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Ootside, a snawbird skirts the gress on page 16

1 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
that peeped frae flouncy skirts. on page 53

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Ahin ma skirts he hides yet. on page 23
An jalousie, clingin ti ma skirts still; on page 35

2 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
gs o pearls, span oot, an oor skirts birled like peeries.
1 matches

Briggs, Susi My Yellow Yorlin, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
Doon on the grun, my skirts upturned
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
ichta been said aboot hoorish skirts and cheap hussy beads and dur on page 76

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
tane waal as tourists in lang skirts watched frae on heich. on page 50

1 matches

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