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The word 'retour'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
retourOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.83217
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 3
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 19.9 15 7
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 1
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 retour in Corpus

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General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
cryin Ye tae retour on page 3

2 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
angover lastit Lang efter his retour: on page 23

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
ae hecht ti byde heir fur hiz retour, an A winna brak ma wird. Bot
sed on sein Ebenezer, fur hiz retour
2 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
The Retour O The Grey Airmy
But since the retour o the grey airmy (Canus vulpi
2 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
din it's time till the eagles retour. on page 14
follies, an tae whilk he wid retour tae brood owre human foibles. on page 101

2 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
enn, it is suggestit, kis his retour wes juist a seyal ti see gin
1 matches

Kirk Jn, Albert Whit, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
She didnae retour, whilk mittles us aw;
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
her ring in Fraunce, an didna retour tae Scotland till 1561, bring
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
Mony snaws retour oan thair mony wunds; on page 14
Noo ah retour, lik a cran frae oot the east on page 15

2 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
has vainished, tae retour nae mair. on page 6
Anely then will ah retour on page 9
ah mak him a bluid-plicht to retour, on page 46
Dinnae retour again. on page 50
The nicht, their howps retour like seas. on page 86

7 matches

Grace, Reyzl Eemis Stane 2 - Late Efternuin in the Hermitage, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, poetry
tae retour tae his aither hauf. Aye, her on page 6

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
When the time faas for his retour on page 97

3 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 59 - Eleiven Quad Bike Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
5. The Retour O The Puir Shepherd. on page 114

1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
in Morgan in Phaedra, whilk I retour tae ablow.
1 matches

Puchowski, James Frae Norrowa ower the faem, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
kintra’s landscape. Whan I retour i Septemmer, I leuk forrit ta
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt twa: Janus leuks aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ays, The Sair Fecht merks its retour for 2015 wi an airticle by Al
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
r empie cairts, bot fur thair retour hame; tae evite gittin boggit
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
The day A hae a notion tae retour on page 11
Oh path wi nae retour! Hou brief the time on page 14

2 matches

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