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The word 'civil'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
civilOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.23928
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 105.5 3 1
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 27.1 5 4
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of civil 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

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
He barely said a civil wird or teuk a bite tae aet. on page 50

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
"Then id wisna awful civil o ee till offer id," sade Ali on page 64
y leck, sade, "If ee canna be civil, ee'd better feenish e story on page 70

3 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Cud ye nae jist hiv bin civil?" Isobel glowered it the dash on page 30

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
oan is road oot. "At wis affa civil o ye an much appreciatit." on page 27

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
park sign aat ARI yon says “Civil remedies in force” I aye thi(2014)

General Northern

Mitchell, Ian R. Lallans 63 - Walkin Woundit, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
“The Spanish Civil War? Ye reading aboot that, l
1 matches

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
aiten fir/fur the impendin ‘(Civil) War o the Translations’ abo(2020)

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
irden until she learnt tae be civil. Eftir a wee while, the naugh on page 97

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
nt. Thae campaigners frae the civil richts NGO, Cornwall 2000, ch
s on tae the Cornish folk. Ae civil richts upsteerer frae Bodmin,
2 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
were jist aboot civil tae their wee dochter. The ne on page 44

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
We're like the Three Amigos o civil nationalism; whaurever there
1 matches

Davidson, Alistair The Mitterand Plan, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
only under the shelter of the civil magistrate that the owner of
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
erhaps we’re corrupting the civil society?” he venturit. “P
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
eid. Bit he could still gie a civil question a civil answer.-How' on page 57

2 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
s o terror or related forms o civil unrest.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
tly rebuffed by the low-level civil servant he’s been assigned
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
obably not as extreme. It’s civil liberties, after all, but som
1 matches

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt La Le La Le La Iron Mountain, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
civil hegemony
civil hegemony
2 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
CIVIL WAR on page 83

2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
ts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes (20/2 1471): Alex. bea on page 17

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Indytwa?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
re state, tredd union richts, civil liberties an regulation o the
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Tae see oorsels as we see ithers, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
lk haes fasht human richts an civil liberties groups. The tane is
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
Godley Week it certainly isna civil!(2020)

@OliphantWullie tweeted
fir wee insults btw. Keep it civil. (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
p in a huff, "If ee cannae b' civil, ee'd better feeneesh th stor on page 72

1 matches

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
ed fae NE AND Robert Steveson civil engineer fae Glasgae in desig (2020) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
an unco civil learned chiel, educate at Sal on page 44

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
ly remarkt "If yae cannae bae civil, yae wad bae better finishin on page 74

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Whiles, blame is pit on civil laws, on page 55
Professors, Civil Sarvints tae, on page 57

2 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
They started aff raisonablie civil, on page 35
In fairness the polis wur civil, on page 36

2 matches

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