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The word 'chieftain'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
chieftainOccurrences 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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of chieftain in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
er honest, sonsie face, great chieftain o the pudden race," sir?' on page 57

1 matches

General Northern

Noble, Brian , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
By reciting great chieftain o the pudding race
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
seaman that wis on board the Chieftain that sailit tae the Arctic in on page 40
e years. Oniewey on 3 May the Chieftain's boats had headit oot eftir on page 41
ads that had got lost fae the Chieftain, an that a couple o the ither on page 43

4 matches

General Central

@DABArbuckle tweeted
o American. Could we no hae a Chieftain? ??(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Nae Chieftain o the Covid Race on page 51
Graund Chieftain o the gastropods on page 69

2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Great chieftain o tha Ullans race on page 31

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
@ardscatholic "Great chieftain o the puddin race": #UlsterSc (2015) twitter link