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The word 'samuel'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
samuelOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus82610
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 81.4 14 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
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 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 18.2 4 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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) 2369.7 1 1
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of samuel in Corpus

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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
1 Samuel 3 : 1 - 10 on page 21
1 Samuel 16, 17; on page 23

14 matches

Mid Northern A

Johnston, Mary Lallans 81 - A Day at Edinbro Feestival, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric, prose
ine said, ‘To the memory of Samuel Thomson, placed here by his c
1 matches

(South) East Central

Chalmers, Aimee Lallans 59 - Joukene Poukerie, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
First and Second Samuel
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e. Christopher Russell. Here. Samuel Semple. Here. Louise Strachan on page 47

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
behind his desk. 'I like you, Samuel.' on page 60
'Samuel, how you getting on today, pa on page 61

4 matches

General Central

wee-windaes Whit is Scots?, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2018) Central, prose
nant, staundartised English, (Samuel Johnson cried the Scots tung
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@JennyLConstable Beckett. Samuel. Thon play with Billie Whitel(2020)

South East (Borders)

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
or saut, tae. My grandfaither Samuel McDiarmid Young – a cousin
1 matches

South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)

BardOfMilebush Untitled poem, (Reddit 2017) Ulster, poetry
penned by Bard o' Carngranny: Samuel Thomson
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
hatever thon carnaptious gett Samuel Thomson says! Aa the best! (2014) twitter link