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The word 'syria'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
syriaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4117
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.7 3 2
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) 54.5 3 1

Occurrences of syria in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
t tae hear o him i the hale o Syria, an they fess aa kine o nae w on page 10
fan Quirinius wis Govvernor o Syria. An ilka man gaed till his ai on page 81

2 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair The porage revolution: Hou porage cam tae mak Scotland habitable, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
t. The launds kent the day as Syria, Jordan, Egypt an the rest wa
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas A Scots Pairlament?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
s waur. Bairns bein bombed in Syria, austerity cuts sclicing thro
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
This isnae Syria nor fremmit fields on page 77

2 matches

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Ye ken Ayesha frae Syria on page 24

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
ts wurd for oor response tae #syria #gaza #crimea, or ony crisis (2014) twitter link

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
urd aboot hïm spreed aa ower Syria, an the' brocht tae hïm aa t on page 4
Quirinius wus tha Governor o Syria. An iveriebodie wus haein tae on page 71
lain, apairt frae Naaman frae Syria." on page 76

3 matches

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