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The word 'armstrong'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
armstrongOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11711
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 5
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 170.6 6 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of armstrong in Corpus

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
hat say aboot the midfield - Armstrong, mclean and fleck been absolu (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Lallans 59 - Leids and Lieder: Walcome ti Helvetiscots, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
tit a tonal affinitie wi Kate Armstrong, wha has reponed ti my reques on page 5

1 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
uals incluidin Timothy Currie Armstrong and Professor Wilson McLeod, on page 38

1 matches

Matheson, Ann Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
eik-names lik 'Dave the Lady Armstrong' or 'Dog Pyntle Eliot', tae e on page 127

1 matches

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
walin future poetry; an Kate Armstrong will be seekin oot guid pract on page 4

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
humans doun on the Moon. Neil Armstrong – dootless sprung fae the S
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
ng families, Scott, Elliott & Armstrong lived by the old saying "ther(2020)
s is a braw version o Johnnie Armstrong. Enjoy(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Scott, Hamish Lallans 75 - Televeision, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Neil Armstrong land upo the Muin an tak his
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Gibson, Darren Cannae Thole Ye!, (lowcountrylad.blogspot.com/ 2014) Ulster - Ards, blog
an poet George Francis Savage Armstrong caad, ‘A Cannae Thole Ye’
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
naghan Fair faa ye, hallions: Armstrong gied thon moon yarn in braid (2015) twitter link
tradeetion o spacers wi Neil Armstrong being #UlsterScots. Mind his (2014) twitter link
thon be a a nott case or no @Armstrong ? (2015) twitter link
I didnae ken that Neil Armstrong was an Ulster Scot: I wunner (2014) twitter link
f Down" (1901) by G.F. Savage-Armstrong. A Kirk elder dannerin hame g (2018) twitter link
and 1 other occurrences.