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The word 'terrain'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
terrainOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3119
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 24.8 4 2
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 2
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 terrain in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
in its shadowy terrain. on page 3

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
or Marion safely doon. As the terrain started tae flatten oot near
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ck? The distance, the hostile terrain, the hostile fundies, an than
he walkin wis haurd gaun ower terrain braken up be meltwatter burns
icked thair wey ower the roch terrain. His parents had been kilt in
3 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
git telt. His face is like a terrain map ae varicose veins fae the on page 49

1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
m while he stumbles aboot new terrain. He doesnae want tae fa' doon on page

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth The killin fields!, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
theirsels in their muckle aw-terrain caurs in sic a relentless wey
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
ramped fur miles across rough terrain then sat ootside in sun, wind

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Frae Nova Scotia's harsh terrain on page 32

1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
n throwe some gey precairious terrain n’.
1 matches

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