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The word 'aurora'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
auroraOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.895
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 aurora in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
s and dressin goon #shetland #aurora #gratitude(2016)
hole sky. My neck is sore :) #aurora #shetland(2014)
Da dancers are surely oot #Aurora #Shetland #cursethesestreetla(2013)
Da dancers are oot! #aurora #Shetland(2013)
Da dancers are oot #aurora(2014)

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
Terra Nova, the Arctic an the Aurora are still sung aboot the day. on page 36

1 matches

General Central

McCabe, Mary Lallans 73 - Tap Table, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Flauchterin Aurora o white nichts o Haparanda on page 117

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
ark jaloused he haed seen the aurora borealis, but Knox wis a weel
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Northwords Now 43 - Donald Adamson, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Central, poetry
aurora borealis, or aroon the bit on page 28

1 matches

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