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The word 'mcilvanney'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mcilvanneyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1104
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 27.6 6 1
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 mcilvanney in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
kythin in the works o Kelman, McIlvanney, Rankin, Jeff Torrington, Irv
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Mindin on Willie McIlvanney, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Bellshill, blog
Willie McIlvanney wis niver a man for tholin pr
evendoun awthegither. Willie McIlvanney wis aw aboot cowpin ower the
ill got distances tae run, an McIlvanney the writer will cairy on lang
iter will cairy on lang efter McIlvanney the man, or ony o us that ken
For whit Willie McIlvanney did, mair than onybody else i
5 matches

Clark, Thomas Tae Kathleen Jamie, an ither Scots Scrievers, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
ked - but it's at least, quo McIlvanney, tae staun in yer underwear.
1 matches

General Central

@OliphantWullie tweeted
A think it wis Wullie or Shug McIlvanney wha wis sent tae the heidie f (2022) twitter link

@billykayscot tweeted
e SNP the now minds me o Hugh McIlvanney’s quote about the Scottish f(2020)