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The word 'myrtle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
myrtleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.9225
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 189.7 16 1
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
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 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 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of myrtle in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
an tha Myrtle, an aa seeven fishermen aboar on page 88

1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
fower year. That, an mi wife Myrtle takin a pint tummler o barley on page 72
In oor case, cos Myrtle had nae lang plunted her hyac on page 76
'Here's fit we'll dae,' says Myrtle, chirpy as a lintie. 'This is on page 77

16 matches

West Central

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
aw leaves growin daurk on the myrtle shaw; on page 137

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
hay hed threi dochters, Ella, Myrtle an than Margaret born 1946.
The middle yin, Myrtle, wis the Mulsintoun servan-la
2 matches

General Ulster

@HurchinHome tweeted
tweeting this earlier The Bog Myrtle! These are great! You're weel(2020)
ither class poem frae The Bob Myrtle! https://t.co/L42eNnZbRC(2020)