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The word 'lough'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
loughOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.5189
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 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) 265 3 3
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 153.7 3 2
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 131.3 4 1
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 90.8 5 1

Occurrences of lough 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.

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
ins hid revealed a muckle big lough naurby the East Gate, sae he
far aff, aboot as far fae the lough as he was, bit oan the ither
2 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
e the missions he run inty in Lough Derg? His wie o leevin wuz a on page 49

1 matches

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
It dances ain tha lough on page 40

1 matches

Hume, David The Aldfreck Coalmining Disaster, (Ullans Magazine 2012) Ulster - Ballycarry, poetry
minin black dymons nixt Larne Lough;
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
n Newtown toon, an Strangford Lough, on page 30

1 matches

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
An, doon tha Lough, thon's Chaipel Isle, on page 1
r The Smugglers of Strangford Lough. Mr McFadden wus tuk tae tha on page 29

2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
me close tae the stench o the lough. "It's a guid day fur pickin on page 25

1 matches

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
euk the four weans doon tae a lough for a bathe.’
bathed in the wairmth o Larne Lough.’
back Aoife’s winds an Larne Lough did keep King Lir’s weans w
3 matches

General Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
speech and folk of Strangford Lough, from 1940. #ulsterscots #com(2020)

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
day, Jesus wus stannin bi tha Lough o Genessaretb, an aa tha fowk on page 77
Tha stoarm on tha lough on page 83
hïll, heid furst ïntae tha lough, an tha hale lock wus droont. on page 84

5 matches

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