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The word 'oscar'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
oscarOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.964
ORK - Orkney
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
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 oscar in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Dis oscar winning sketch fae Uyeasound (2018)
hopeful/thankful) when i hear Oscar Charlie firing up, especially(2016)

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
ys, "Man, ye deserve a bluidy Oscar so ye dae!" on page 90

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
got a kick in the heid. Puir Oscar,that wis him hyena bait.”
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
'The Picture of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde.' on page 8
he's walked straicht oot o an Oscar Wilde play. Talk aboot bein e on page 9

2 matches

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