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The word 'paragraph'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
paragraphOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.91911
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 13.4 10 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 paragraph in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
should've made him de the 3rd paragraph nae the 1st. Think i may send(2011)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
rd white noise efter e second paragraph.(2020)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Efter descrivin in the first paragraph, the 71 year auld Secretar o
f Scots Tung", in the saicont paragraph he forgets wha he wis speakin
iein me an innin in the first paragraph as a "genial 55 year old chai
ried "Haining" in the saicont paragraph. A've nae kennin wha this Hai
4 matches

General Central

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
ae a sklent throch DOST. Ilka paragraph o quotations wull gie ye a wh on page 59

1 matches

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
o Linguistic Richts. See last paragraph o the 'Preliminars'. on page 24

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
tak time tae look at the hail paragraph ye'r wantin tae owerset an fa on page 7
fferences atween owersettin a paragraph o Soothron word-bi-word intae on page 41

2 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
Minority Leids an detailt in paragraph (17). Yon
75. As wis statit in paragraph (48), education an culture is
94. Paragraph (17) o this report focused on
registered his dissension fae paragraph 119 on the groonds that the
paragraph contains a commitment tae inc
5 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
Nou, even my first paragraph kythes some kittle questions
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
ti the university, A spied a paragraph in the Scotsman sayin Edinbur
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
r line, every stracht anither paragraph, ma bits noo trampin pads o s on page 77

1 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
principles set oot in paragraph 5.2 abeen. on page 59

1 matches

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