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The word 'greeks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
greeksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.897
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of greeks in Corpus

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West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
, beloved landscape. Frae the Greeks he learnt that pouer bides in on page 100

1 matches

General Central

McCabe, Mary Lallans 73 - Tap Table, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Greeks an Turks aye grunchin ower th on page 117

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
The Greeks cryed this planet efter Ares
n tales, whither fae the Auld Greeks or oot the screivings o HG We
2 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
Cretan warriors tae fecht the Greeks. It wis mony months afore he
wid luik unco strange tae the Greeks, an that they widna want thei
2 matches

McClurg, Fernando Syriza, an the road aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
the centre-richt Independent Greeks, a populist, euroskeptic pair
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
a stairtit wi they fantouche Greeks, hooever, chyngin veectims o on page 59

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
@DGordonhack Sinn Fein an the Greeks: baith quare an fand o their (2015) twitter link