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The word 'weapon'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
weaponOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.61812
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 weapon in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, Christian Da Hegri, (Shetland For Wirds 2001) Shetland, poetry
Willpooer dy weapon.
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
de o' ash, tough and used fir weapon handles. Embla made o' elm, g(2020)

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
erer’ hid moved ontae a new weapon o terror. It wiz aa speculati
hid been the silencer for the weapon. It wiz in size and shape lik
2 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
a breath, so I used my secret weapon Fisherman’s Friends. A half
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
sted she wid need some sort o weapon
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
s. It wis their education. Ma weapon ae choice wisnae a rifle or a on page 91
d the bloke as if he's goat a weapon ae mass destruction stuffed i on page 124

2 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
rsons unknown who grabbed his weapon and executed him wi it there
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
hin aff heids an limbs wi his weapon, gettin covert wi bluid an gu on page 20
am hand it ower as sic a fine weapon wis far ower good fer a commo on page 23

3 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
he ceety o weemen is the only weapon we hae.” She paused an smil
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
'Put down the weapon, sir, the driver says. She's on page 176

1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Gie me yer weapon, A'll dae it masel. on page 83

1 matches

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
570306 I'll give ya blouse ya weapon! Yes I know how lassies get w (2022) twitter link
@clouise81 And ya got lost ya weapon! Ya coudnae watch the Sky Art (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
cos Ah hae got the secret weapon. on page 75

1 matches

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