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The word 'mandolin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mandolinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus0.933
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 mandolin in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
I dunna hae a mandolin so had tae use my ukulele htt(2014)

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
magical wizard. Plays a mean mandolin / whistle combo! (2020) twitter link

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
gnantly, Jake brought his wee mandolin, an played a sang screivit in
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