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The word 'widow'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
widowOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.61514
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 4
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 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) 176.7 2 1
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 widow 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.

Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
a widow, a mither, on page 8

1 matches

Tait, Ruth Gallows Ha - Watchan Eyes, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Hur neem wis Kit Huntlin - a widow on page 9

1 matches

Leonard, Ingrid Northwords Now 43 - Ingrid Leonard, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Orkney, poetry
o his widow sayan, ah'm come on page 18

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
Dursley crept tae the bedroom widow and peered doon intae the fro
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
suddenly in his sleep, an his widow selt da business on page 39

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
widow or, mair lik, Live dangerousl on page 25

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
on ti yon harbour wi ma black widow catapult . Fit rare fun we hi(2020)

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
..and it was covered in black widow spiders...the females are bro (2021) twitter link

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
wi a widow's peak that maks on page 35

1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ked the bucket, Elsie(Sid’s widow) couldnae cope wi haen a teen
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
various fowk an stayit wi the widow o Principal McCormick at St A on page 26

1 matches

Glasgow

Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ky is stiflin the moon like a widow’s veil coverin her auld cou
1 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
'Widow of an Elgin Hairdresser.' on page 100

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Tha widow ushered mae wi'in on page 50

2 matches

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