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The word 'squirrels'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
squirrelsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.3217
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 22.3 17 3
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of squirrels in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Thae squirrels, are they no a pest?
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
in their green jaickets. The squirrels wid be gaitherin them verra s on page 175

1 matches

Edinburgh

Purves, Jamie Lallans 102 - Aince, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
Thir wir squirrels amang the pine cones an aw ma on page 12

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
ER! If ye dae, ye'll fleg the squirrels!' on page 125
squirrels can get hazll walnuts oot o w on page 126
le dae ye want for wan o thae squirrels? Jist name yer price.' on page 127
strauchled furiously, but the squirrels held her ticht and she couldn on page 128
. and yon is exactly whit the squirrels gied her! Ower she cowped, in on page 131
Also on pages 132
15 matches

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
When Squirrels Tak Ower the Warld on page 5

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 67 - In Search o Robert Henrysoun, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
en doon the Glen, chasin grey squirrels, on page 123

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Red Squirrels crawl across the flair an on page 71

1 matches

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