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The word 'queensferry'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
queensferryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.276
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 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 queensferry in Corpus

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Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
t..they were boring as feck...Queensferry mob..a huge spider ran across (2021) twitter link

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
otland. The two pubs in north Queensferry have been shut for donkeys. M(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ames 2 nite at saughton n the queensferry hub - is there any nearer - (2020) twitter link
is the amazing queensferry crossing open today or is the (2020) twitter link

General Central

Eagle, Andy Lallans 63 - Stravaigin The Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
the Forth Rail Brig at North Queensferry in Fife ye can snuve alang th
1 matches

Ewen, Allan The Blin Man an the Man Wha Couldna See, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
Firth o Forth, North an Sooth Queensferry conneckit by the dirlin o pas
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
is gaun - “Broughty Ferry...Queensferry etc, etc.(2020)

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