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The word 'norway'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
norwayOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.52111
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 65.6 6 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 49.9 4 2
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 norway in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
hen FIBO Warden, 4 chicks fae Norway, reared to flying and then re(2020)

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
er vratch, aa roon the heel o Norway an Sweden inno the Baltic Oce
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
r son wiz a prisoner o war in Norway and wiz in good health. Oh me
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
voys aff the coast o occupied Norway. She tellt ma on one attack t
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
Kintra: Norway on page 15
rparken' are sae weel kent in Norway that the park is aften caad t on page 16

6 matches

General Northern

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
inavia. Maist o these cam fae Norway, but likely a pucklie cam fae
Empire in the airmy o Denmark-Norway wi about 1,500 men. But fan D
ut 1,500 men. But fan Denmark-Norway made it’s peace in 1629, th
3 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
, ane frae Sweden an ane frae Norway. Whan I speirt whit language
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
the Shetland Isles, neebourin Norway. It is spak in thrang urban c
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
and the gazebo blows awa tae Norway?(2020)

@OliphantWullie tweeted
l revenues fir 47 year whilst Norway's yaised it for the folk. (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
o ‘Lewis an Harris’ frae Norway i the 13nt. centurie. Appeari
1 matches

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
heel) Ma wee bairn livin’ in Norway and she has a grand sense o’ (2021) twitter link
history within, when a was in Norway, some of peeps a ken, mention(2020)
Scotland, N. Ireland and even Norway, surprisingly, we share simil(2020)

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