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The word 'claire'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
claireOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.897
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
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 claire in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Ah'm 'Claire', ah'm blonde and ah'm twenty on page 43

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
edd a terrible night, David," Claire slurred, as shü staggered in on page 51
lions prowlin ahint him, whin Claire screamed at me, on page 52

2 matches

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ie @needler_claire Haud gyaan Claire (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Lallans 59 - Leids and Lieder: Walcome ti Helvetiscots, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
; Ron Butlin an his wife Regi Claire (wha is hersel Swiss-born) ha on page 5

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
rian remarks, Fur Christ sake Claire it wis jist a joke, he said, on page 66
ae earn her ain pocket money. Claire ah said naw right, ma da said on page 142

2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
She knows Adele McLafferty an Claire Smith an that. Here, dae ye k
1 matches

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
@Thuckster__ So, Claire wi an "I" wis a dud, then?(2020)