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The word 'straths'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
strathsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7129
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
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 straths in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
ur hoose! The Bens, Glens and Straths. Mc/Mac, Clans, Tartan & Gài (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
And far abune the Angus straths I saw the wild geese flee, A (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 70 - St Anndra’s Day, 2008, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
daurkenin in deep straths? Na! Mairlike some dim
1 matches

Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
by gazelles an daes in the straths, on page 4
by gazelles an daes in the straths, on page 6
by gazelles an daes in the straths, on page 17

3 matches

General Central

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 102 - A Sang tae the Heir, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
Straths laich-liggin, braes an shaws, on page 11

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Wide lochs an straths, laich park an shieling hie, on page 63

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
a muckle open scaur o sindry straths cryed Valles Marineris while
the'r a landscape o hills an straths an islands wi a sea o ammonia
2 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
ooks "And far abuin the Angus Straths I saw the wild geese flee/ A (2018)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
pufft aw owre the place, wir straths an glens, wir lochs an braes, on page 77

1 matches

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