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The word 'sherlock'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sherlockOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.275
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 sherlock in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
all, an ye didna need ti be a Sherlock Holmes ti tell fae the wey th on page 38

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Sherlock".
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
lor1 thats ma man - nae shit sherlock lol (2020) twitter link
eets in awe where - nae shit sherlock is back lol (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ist the urge tae say nae shit Sherlock. “Aye.”
Nae shit Sherlock, ah hink. Grateful hauf ma fa
2 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
In June 1996, wirkin wi Ceri Sherlock an John Ramage, A cairried oo on page 40

1 matches

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