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The word 'communion'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
communionOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.11312
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 2
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 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 communion in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Sabbath claes; the rich reed communion wine an the fooshtie guff o a on page 74

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
anely drank strang liquor at communion, or mebbe ae wee dram at a wa
1 matches

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
glorious communion
1 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
Wi hardly a communion wafer on page 33

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
hae an auld Scottish secular communion, read as “Coffee an’ scon
1 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
ag you tae Anne Marie's First Communion. And you're tellin me you're
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ower twa hale days, dispensin Communion tae thousans o guid honest Ch on page 28

1 matches

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 74 - MacCaig’s draucht oan the waa, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Gies oor common communion a wee bittie fushion
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
Ah'd followed Mrs Nichols tae communion, even though ah wasnae due th on page 38
meone's time will huv come by communion, and the queue itsel will be on page 111

2 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Rite o Communion on page 97

1 matches

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
absolution and wis gien communion; and the priest
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
ield preachin Cameron wud gie communion tae those as wantit it, bapti

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