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The word 'twilight'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
twilightOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 twilight in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Tae thee, or no tae thee?, (Brisk Northerly 2020) Orkney, blog
assionate utterance. In their twilight years, the writers Edwin and
1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
z barred fae the inside efter twilight came shimmerin doon in the Br
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
n there - the clowns fae the twilight zone r oot - the sheep huv b (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
certainly fast approachin her twilight years.
1 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
rdson3 Never really got intae Twilight a wis an Angel fan! I'd perso(2015)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The twilight o' his days on page 6

1 matches

@officialAliRed tweeted
'm sure ma fither, who in his twilight years was #Hawick's traffic w(2020)

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

@fairfaaye tweeted
rly beautiful expressions for twilight: “gloamin” and “dailygan”(2020)