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The word 'highlanders'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
highlandersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.2178
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 70.3 2 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
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 highlanders in Corpus

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Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ng man he wis in the Seaforth Highlanders and saa active service in the on page 37
/15840 Pte David ... Seaforth Highlanders was admitted to 8 General Hos on page 38

3 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
"A proceed. 'Charlie tould e Highlanders that e English Jacobites wid on page 24

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
jined the ranks o the Gordon Highlanders. There wiz that mony new recr
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
a guid tae see so many Gordon Highlanders on The Cenotaph Remembrance P(2016)
Video why Aberdeen & Gordon Highlanders feature in my new novel, The (2017)
mas Craft Fayre at the Gordon Highlanders Museum this Setterday fae noo(2017)
nes from £4-50 at the Gordon Highlanders Museum Christmas Fayre tomorr(2017)
ither fa served in the Gordon Highlanders during Wardle War Twaa an wis(2020)

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 67 - Ane Amang Monie, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Hamilton, poetry
Hans Hardie, 1st Batt. Gordon Highlanders, aged twinty, was lost athoot on page 143

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
pairty o the 78th Highlanders cam intae the toun and drew u on page 128

1 matches

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
the Germans, scores o Gordon Highlanders an oor Sidney wis thair. He p on page 76

2 matches

General Central

Facebook link ( 2017) Central
attle whaur Viscount Dundee's highlanders defeated the governrment army
r imagination caw up the wild highlanders and the ploddin redcoats whae

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