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The word 'extinct'
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Use in varieties of Scots extinct Occurrences normalised per million words Occurrences Authors
Dialect map - Usage over time
Total Corpus 4.1 13 8 ORK - Orkney
19.9
2
2
SHD - Shetland
11.6
2
1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
47.4
4
1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
12.6
2
2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
2.7
2
1
SEA - South East (Borders)
12.5
1
1
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 extinct 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
Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales , (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
efully examined the once more extinct pipe afore stowan id awey in on page 20
1 matches
Hall, Simon W. Tae thee, or no tae thee? , (Brisk Northerly 2020) Orkney, blog
s are more or less completely extinct in Mainland noo. Wance, aboot
1 matches
Shetland
I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1 , (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
n ancestor languages is Norn ( extinct ) an Scots, wi a lok o Dutch a on page 7
time. Da main eens wis da noo extinct Scandinavian Norn, da languag on page 9
2 matches
Aberdeen
Uri, Antonia The birds an the bees , (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
hae fower year afore we went extinct oorsels. Attenborough’s pos
1 matches
Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government , (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
h wildflowers have been going extinct across the country.
rs are slowly but surely gaun extinct , ae species at a time. For th
ht that wildflooers hav becam extinct acause o the drainin o peat b
3 matches
Edinburgh
Sneddon, Duncan Lallans 83 - Biggin Brigs – Nummer 3: Cornish , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
classifaction o Cornish frae ' extinct ' tae 'critically endangered' on page 107
1 matches
Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences , (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
occur to me to say they’re extinct . And then I didn’t have the
1 matches
General Central
Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o , (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
o the world’s leids will be extinct or doomed
tae be extinct by the end o the neist (21st)
2 matches
South East (Borders)
Thompson, James My Borderlands , (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Wad then become extinct on page 23
1 matches