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The word 'opera'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
operaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7125
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 71.1 6 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 opera in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
es). Inwith it, ye can fin an opera hoose, an ootdoor oceanograph on page 3
Orchestra' an the 'Icelandic Opera'. If yer lucky, ye coud hae t on page 11
a wunner up the cantie 'Oslo Opera House'. Designed tae mirror N on page 16

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General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
oScot news so there is a soap opera historian getting 10minutes t(2020)

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
uther, an is celebratit in an opera bi Richard Wagner. As the nic on page 45

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 86, (self-published 2001) Central, newspaper
The new Celtic vairsion o the Opera stravaiger haes been biggit u
ser uised leid level. The new Opera stravaiger will be fendit ath
on-haundelt frae:- http://www.opera.com (EL) Ane o the oot-comes
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South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
wullsomely murtherin Scottish Opera whyle lattin on ti think on d on page 5

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