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The word 'convoys'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
convoysOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.586
ORK - Orkney
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 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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 convoys in Corpus

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Shetland

Sinclair, James Murmansk, (Scottish Poetry Library 2019) Shetland, poetry
Aa dat years itill da convoys, da men an cargoes he sailed
htnin, he said, wis da Arctic convoys.
2 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
e North Sea tae attack German convoys aff the coast o occupied Norw
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
- Ah'd lost freens missel on convoys. 'I hear the lad eence saved on page 38
laach. 'That's fit we caa the convoys that rin roon the coast. Twa on page 44

2 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
lyve swallaes the naitioun an convoys it doun ti the fit o
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
there'll be nae mair nuclear convoys gangin thru oor touns an citi on page 150

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
the north sea, U-bait raids, convoys tae North Pole airts sic as R on page 110

1 matches

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