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The word 'rhetoric'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
rhetoricOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.41111
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
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 10.7 8 8
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of rhetoric 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.

West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
years hing’s a bit o’ the rhetoric, cus fer maist o’ us the bi
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
gashle yir rhetoric on page 54

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
arent. The tension atween the rhetoric, the aspirations and the real
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
onie nation, the pooer o the rhetoric o freedom bydit strang. Susta
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Murphy’s Law, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
ir preservin the Union. Maist rhetoric frae ‘Aye’ voters also pr
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
iblishit trope in Renaissance rhetoric on male freenship, oor poet m
1 matches

@iainnicol tweeted
aein tae hear as muckle empty rhetoric aboot “federalism”, nor as (2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
h it. Hence the nursery-slope rhetoric today - she's got tae hope t (2022) twitter link

@pmcm1355 tweeted
s a raving loony if he thinks rhetoric like that is going to have an (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
ae haen that monie breenges o rhetoric anent whit thay micht dae for on page 5

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris On Times Austere, (words.krishaddow.com 2012) Central, poetry
O Maisters! Wha bleat rhetoric
1 matches

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