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The word 'elgin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
elginOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.42413
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 48.8 11 5
NEC - North East Central 185.5 4 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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 elgin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Facebook link ( 2012) Doric - Buckie
Ye hiv tae ging tae Elgin tae gie birth. There's nae pi

@FaeFoggie tweeted
uros. Affa tight. Mist be fae Elgin. Either that or she thocht a (2019)

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
er is going oot wi a lad frae Elgin (big city lad) and ye hear ho (2021) twitter link

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
said he spak lik 'he had the Elgin Marbles in his moo' - pickin on page 54

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
ocht ere wis yon wifie up the Elgin wye." My goodness she hid
ain an, Jonsar Eck wis up the Elgin wye
vin". As they gaed awa up the Elgin wye Jonsar Eck
time I wis up the Elgin wye. Yon German mannie turned
nd an decided tae gang up the Elgin wye on Monday. He
5 matches

@AMaxwell54 tweeted
n Gàidhlig) eest tae bide in Elgin. His faither wis ih Depute Do (2020) twitter link

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
@ClaireHANM The Elgin Marbles, apparently... ?? Nah(2020)

@Franwella tweeted
eNicol1 feck jist heading tae elgin!(2012)
@LouiseNicol1 yae n Erin's in Elgin n bringin back indian woop wo(2011)
g intae the rain, driving tae Elgin n purchasing Chicken Tikka Ch(2011)

@glenlivetloon tweeted
@kdugdalemsp Fae an Elgin quine, I really dae expect be(2015)

North East Central

Heather, Alistair The Body Snatchers, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
aa the wey oot tae Huntly an Elgin tae pauchle bodies fae their
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Lat the auld witch burn, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
the grund in the kirkyaird at Elgin, an still there isnae a body
Sellar lies deid in a tomb at Elgin. The stookie haes haed fowk e
2 matches

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
uk o laun thirty mile sooth o Elgin an the same in fae Aiberdeen.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ntit wi flouers alang wi Lady Elgin, that haed a bluebell in her
nk as the landed gentry? Lord Elgin, the Projeck's patron, wis gi
2 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
an Elgin road - mind, whaur the auld on page 100

2 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
hen there’s Kevin McKidd, an Elgin boy, who adopts the Doric dia (2018) twitter link

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