A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'arrow'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
arrowOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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 10.2 4 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 arrow in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
ght in takkan selfies wae the arrow o the Twatt roadsign aimed at
1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Back tae trowie schul, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
e learn hoo tae use my bow an arrow,” said a filskit Gutteryagg
1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
e executioner went off lek an arrow. on page 84

1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
Ony body watching Arrow 8 seasons jist starting the j(2020)

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Looses his arrow, way off course It strikes a on page 5

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
times he tried but that last arrow must hae been jinxed. That le on page 94

2 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
A hae nae bow an arrow.
1 matches

General Central

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
He can pu teeth, tak oot arrow heids, musket balls, as weel

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