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The word 'asian'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
asianOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4139
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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 asian 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.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ir groupie t-shirts wuvven in Asian swyte shops. Gin they'd bit l
erin financial sweetenins tae Asian directors tae jyne his compan
2 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
telling me that yon Polish & Asian lads aff the boat like it, bi(2018)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
accompanied by a young skinny Asian boay who looked shy and extre on page 189

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
An Asian faimlie that rins a post offi
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
guid Scots speakers o ethnic Asian origin. But for aw that, the
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
r is that the bird flu or the asian flu lol (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Wi thon Asian flu. on page 115

1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
it wasnae for thon dour faced Asian lassie that wadnae speik tae on page 37

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
ade kinnen that is seen throu Asian een, a tradeetion that haed i
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
unnerstaun the pressures East Asian folk pit on thumsels tae luik(2020)
Sonia disnae look Asian. Ah widnae ken if Ah passed h(2020)

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