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The word 'carol'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
carolOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.53713
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 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.8 5 3
WCE - West Central 96.5 21 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 carol in Corpus

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Orkney

@johnkmitchinson tweeted
Trying to translate a carol into Orkney Scots each year - (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ld an hungeret, watchin three carol singers buyin ferlies frae a
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
word means Dirty. Thanks tae Carol. xx(2015)
day/night before. Thanks tae Carol. xx(2015)

(South) East Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
fessor Fowler queried whether Carol Anne Duffy warranted a place on page 95

1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
oing intae the barbering game Carol. I new I’d be stuck with OAP(2020)
nce Carl and kept calling him Carol. By the way Carol, we’ll wel(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
e wis shockin - get big andy carol tae shooder charge the fecker (2020) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Carol Ann Duffy and Vikram Seth, on page 37

1 matches

Alston, Connor THE BLACK-EYED CHILDREN OF SCOTLAND, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Jim and Carol (the couple in the story) liv
p the snow aff the drive way. Carol watched “One of Us” oan t
(Crash!) They awoke. Carol rollt ower and nudged Jim ‘
that he didnae want tae make Carol crabbit, slouched doun the st
st seek efter one whiff. Even Carol had tae cover her nose tae av
20 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Wee Roge Boobs, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
uit o’ tests. In this group Carol wis recordin’ the results,
Sae has jist lookin’ doon Carol’s cleavage done this tae ye
r Blood pressure?” At which Carol got up, ca’ him a “Perve!
3 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
he Yule tree, the music o the carol service, an the blythe smilin on page 81

1 matches

Robertson, Sine Lallans 59 - Newsins fae SLRC, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
an CD by Dr Chris Robinson an Carol Ann Crawford, on the Scots sp on page 87

1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
getting ready tae tak part in Carol Service this afternoon! #inth(2014)

@LairnScots tweeted
ntine's Day themorra! Compare Carol Ann Duffy's poem 'Valentine' (2018) twitter link

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