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The word 'ark'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
arkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.71210
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 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 ark 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

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
fae the bowels o wur marital ark. on page 9

1 matches

Hershaw, William Seivin Verses for GMB, (Scottish Poetry Library 2015) Orkney, poetry
s Magnus sails his saundstane ark
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
stoppit. Eneuch tae droon an ark. Aa Minnie's sma possessions
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ee wi global warmin, a Noah's Ark agin tsunamis gin they sud sw
1 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
'that we are aa in the same ark o this universe' on page 20

1 matches

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
wife ye cane, i dinna hae an ark!(2011)

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
so like Noah's Ark thi came across, on page 43

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
s triglie stowed awaw ben the ark. Rois hes pit aw the peypers on page 11

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ed her Hsien sittin on a meal ark. He drappit the quilt that wi
t kist - ” He indicatit the ark whaur he had been sittin. “
2 matches

General Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Flittin In, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
aised is ballast fir Noah’s Ark an a biler, hemmed wi concret
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
It wad be like the ark o the covenant on page 77

1 matches

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