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The word 'sole'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
soleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.82220
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 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 12.7 5 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 6
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sole in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
on here tae hide ahint wi da sole purpose o firin dug's abuse a(2021)

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
sells ye ra'an Kippers, lemon sole an heerin on page 15

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
An lemon sole an' aa on page 98

1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
stan oot on the nerrae windae sole, ding his cheisel intil the c on page 26

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
oot his lanely island realm, Sole laird and captain there: on page 11

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ioners joinin Twitter fur the sole purpose ae tweetin what a vil on page 54

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
had stuid, a fuit wes caucht sole upmaist by the stainchion o t
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Boris Johnstone, (colinburnett.co.uk 2021) Central - East Central, prose
sioners joinin twiter fur the sole purpose ae tweetin what a vil
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
term lettin fer tourists. The sole reason fer this is profit fer on page 90

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
. He hit his heid on a windae-sole as he fell an fund hissel lyi
apologies, as gin the windae-sole had been guilty o an act o wu
2 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
The hair on ma heid and the sole o ma shae. on page 111

1 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
n in, kin be suspendit at the sole discretion o the operator sub
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
up me as though that’s its sole purpose; like the waiy Ivan t
1 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
An ma lemon sole: warks o art - on page 106

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
rices. Perhaps this is the ae sole rate for the job, the publica on page 72

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
the top of ther heides to the sole of ther feyt, before and behy
1 matches

Puchowski, James Frae Norrowa ower the faem, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
P’s chances o haudin on tae sole pooer i the Scots Pairliament
1 matches

McMillan, Hugh The Return of the Brownie of Blednoch, (no publisher recorded 2022) Central, poetry
the bogle’s sole perconnon wis taen as gien,
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
hoos, got a bit o' shit on ma sole.. :) (2023) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
We sclimmt up on the windae-sole
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
ar-hoose, oan tha deep wundae sole, wur tha oul wumman’s gifts
1 matches

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