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The word 'trenches'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
trenchesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4117
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 trenches in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I gret, like a bairn, in the trenches, when I saa me pals mown doon on page 63

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
and saa active service in the trenches o France. on page 37
r efter he wis wounded in the trenches o France. Hid turns oot that on page 39

2 matches

Shetland

Ritch, Paolo A Remembrance Day, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, poetry
At fowt i’da trenches
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
and his mates arrived at the trenches and some sotter o gutters the
OS bunnet at the rear; in the trenches ye’d tae wear the soup plat
or takkin up rations tae the trenches. Slowly the quate bit o front
artit tae rin towards his ain trenches wavin his airms aboot tae let
4 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
sparkle in ony glimpse o sun. Trenches ur dug oot tae empty coal bun
1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
sleep. The nicht afore in the trenches had been wanrestfou. Govin up on page 17

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ar 1914-18 an hed focht i the trenches it Passendale. Ae tyme, whan
1 matches

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