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The word 'towers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
towersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.8199
ORK - Orkney
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 2
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.6 11 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 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 towers in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
The room wiz intae een o the towers an wiz approached fae the scu
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
f. Hmm. Fit's ess? Barchester Towers. Trollope. Ay, he'd read it l on page 30

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
the transportit Martyrs which towers ower the cemetery, raised bi on page 60

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
shi towers above thi ugly sisters on page 14

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
pointin tae the mountain that towers oer us.
1 matches

Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
proaches the arched sandstone towers markin the entrance tae the f
1 matches

General Central

Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Fer whaur the was an the towers o the place are let crummle, on page 43

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
y worrit. Mairrit tae William Towers the Baker nou for ower sax ye
‘Maister Towers . . . Maister Towers sent me
. . . Maister Towers sent me tae . . . tell ye tha
. tell ye that . . . Mistress Towers haes juist had a . . . wee we
Nou rin back an tell Maister Towers that I’ll be ower tae see m
10 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
w, The Kelvin bridged, signal towers, Wuid an a big turf wa, Fae B on page 5
t Gask, Wi nine guid timbered towers Tae watch fir Picts that pass on page 6

2 matches

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