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The word 'doctour'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
doctourOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4132
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.2 6 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 43.8 7 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 doctour in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Ti scrieve an invitatioun Ti Doctour Michael Scot. on page 8

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
the wes twa brithers at hed a doctour fur a faither. He
thers jyned in the gemms. The doctour wes maistlie ower thrang.
‘Chukken’. The doctour wes fell angirt.
the nixt day, ane o the doctour’s sins ettilt ti cuil hisse
this happent, the doctour hed ti be soumand. Sae whan t
5 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
doctour, wi'z pouther as whyt as snaw on page 7
"An nou, sir," contined the doctour, "sin A ken nou at the'r sicc on page 9

7 matches

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