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The word 'victorian'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
victorianOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.92212
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 2
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 23 9 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of victorian in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
t literary heritage, teu. The Victorian gentleman-farmer Walter Trail
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
er mobile. Antiques for sale: Victorian double wardrobe, drawers, han on page 71
nd an masel are very inte the Victorian look an we've been huntin for on page 72
Beldie pulled the lang-legged Victorian bloomers ower er briks an dun on page 73

3 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
O victorian grandeur on page 32

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
d folk dee wi themsels in the Victorian times afore the internet wis
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
un doon. A neglected concrete Victorian memory. Which pulsated wae an on page 188

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
unnerstandable on the pairt o Victorian cooncillors - fu o the notio
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
r James Barrie. It wisna till Victorian times that Scots startit tae
his kin o wird wis popular in Victorian times (Stevenson aye uizes th
ms juist like the traditional Victorian but wi a smitherin o Middle S
a spellin system based on the Victorian, but better thocht oot than a
er thocht oot than aither the Victorian, SND or RWS spellins. Bi "bet
5 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
eir ain. For example, the'r a Victorian story Oor Scotch Tongue wi th
1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
e laich toun, steps biggit by Victorian puirfowk in days whan fishing
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
e diaphanous-wingit craturs o Victorian romance; they are weel-kennt on page 29

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
history ae this the buildins Victorian heritage. The fuckin hing is
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
y ootside as ah re-enter this Victorian timepiece. Surprisingly, the
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e Royal Infirmary; a crumblin Victorian relic ay a hoaspital. The stu
1 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
in a direck line back tae the Victorian puirshoose, an tae the whisky on page 9

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
a notion o it afore amang the Victorian folk! http://t.co/mv7T4vFPvK (2015) twitter link
t thegither a proposal in the Victorian era. http://t.co/0VkoyaRauN (2014) twitter link