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The word 'enlightenment'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
enlightenmentOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4119
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
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
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) 13.9 1 1
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 enlightenment in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
ENLIGHTENMENT on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ha set his fit on the wye tae Enlightenment. Ithers cad it Samanalakande
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
ch philosophers o the 'Age of Enlightenment'. Chenonceau is wirth veesiti on page 17

1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
inclusion, diversity - a new enlightenment - all of which are alien tae (2020) twitter link

West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
e lik tae debate cus o’ oor Enlightenment history. Bit ah hink that’s
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ich had accelerated durin the Enlightenment wi them that considerit their on page 60

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
s nouadays cried the Scottish Enlightenment. Anither notable o the period on page 123
bein Professor Mylne, anither Enlightenment mannie. By the time she wis j on page 124

2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
est kind. Only it’s Eastern enlightenment an tantric well-bein he’s p
1 matches

General Central

@LairnScots tweeted
Fun oot aboot the Scottish Enlightenment, an Hume's infamous 'Scottici (2020) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
The Scottish Enlightenment nicht oot on page 53

1 matches

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