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The word 'banffshire'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
banffshireOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.965
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 banffshire in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
t o Scotland (Aiberdeenshire, Banffshire, Kincardineshire, Moray), Sco
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Gregor 1866. 'The dialect of Banffshire, with a glossary of words not (2020) twitter link
scotsradiomedia thrilled that Banffshire tourist hub hae a heeze up fe (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
. For the past forty 'ear, in Banffshire alane, twa species o wildfloo
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@JackElphinstone A mannie fae Banffshire wis George(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
i weans in Aiburdeenshire and Banffshire. Ah'm oot o Ayrshire an bide (2020)