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The word 'windows'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
windowsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus82621
ORK - Orkney 99.4 10 7
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 windows in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
id the resultan exposion blew windows oot, ten miles aroond on page 17
He wund doon the Rover windows and sprayed 'Glade Room-Fresh on page 42
There's windows glowan, reed and gold, in sun on page 48
Ah'm sellan new kitchens or windows - hid's aal the sam tae me - on page 84

4 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
noo fer this new body's waas, windows, doars. Astrid taks a guff o on page 49

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The windows aer openan, I see them tak ai on page 142

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
p at the door, peer throo the windows on page 22

1 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
lit trees go up in blank windows. on page 93

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
test drive. We wind doon the windows as it accelerates, expectan a
1 matches

Cowan, Fiona A Boreas domus mare amicus?, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney - Finstown, poetry
Haeve salt apae the windows
1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
fae da windows o P.I.'s bus. on page 40

1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
d not keen as dis shop has no windows on which to pass judgement (2017) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
ime and see you lock all your windows next time you go out.” That
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
of licht in some of the many windows. At least somebody wiz up and
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
aire is a mannie washing his windows like a feel! Nae richt in the(2018)

Aberdeen

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
ore? A garden, maybe? A roof? Windows?” The voice, risin bi degre
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@Ali_Leith @J_Motoki Windows to look oot at(2020)
@suzfirst @SmokieRed83 Windows 2020 latest version Oot noo(2020)
@Ali_Leith Windows oot the windae(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Leaving my hoose windows open fer 5 minutes to let fre(2018)

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
We would wave scarves out the windows, and sing' 'Oh we're nae awa (2024) twitter link

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
probably rushin 2 the steamy windows - the gym lol (2021) twitter link

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
n it. Rain's batterin off the windows like thousands o tiny hammers on page 36

1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
go too crazy and open all the windows, that stuff is a killer nae p(2020)

@IshbelMcF tweeted
The bairn loves windows (wee babies love light and da(2019)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
I watch through smudged windows at the moon. on page 73

1 matches

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