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The word 'morton'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mortonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.83210
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 40.7 7 1
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 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 40.6 16 3
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 morton 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.

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
Tom Morton illustrates dis public concep
guage 19 - aa dis man be (in Morton’s wirds) ta ‘control’ i
Nippy Sweetie’ article, Tom Morton writes:
Tom Morton can say dis ithoot faire o co
Nippy Sweetie’ article, Tom Morton spaeks aboot da problems o wr
7 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
. A cheil fae the RSPB, Keith Morton, wis quotit sayin the Cabrach
1 matches

(South) East Central

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
fur me it's true. Ma laddie, Morton, iz the best son in the warld on page 78
Auld Fowk's Hame ivery week. Morton seys it's sae Ah git ma name on page 80
The day Ah'm in Morton's 'flat'. Ah've gein it a lic on page 81

14 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
f an there’s naethingElaine Morton
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
E. Morton, [CENSORED: postaladdress] or
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
editorship o masel an Elaine Morton, an A'm gey an shuir that the on page 6
Morton for hir mukkil leiterarie an on page 10

2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
an near boked as muckle Jock Morton the Derval blacksmith gied a on page 37
ad lost but ae man, puir John Morton; but anither five were tae de on page 38

2 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
James Douglas, Earl o Morton, anither conspirator (aged 37 on page 14
Lindsay was there, Argyll, an Morton; on page 35

2 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
il a new governor, the erle o Morton, inbrocht in Inglis sodgers a
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
t me aboot gaun a walk in the Morton Park in Derval on a Monday mo(2020)

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