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The word 'attenborough'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
attenboroughOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
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 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 attenborough in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
David Attenborough wis right, Moira tocht as shà on page 27
takk her mind aff o it. David Attenborough wis sittin in his sark sleeve on page 52

2 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia The birds an the bees, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
the subject o bees, Sir David Attenborough nae lang ago wrate a post on
fore we went extinct oorsels. Attenborough’s post also tells us that y
2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
tae an animal that even David Attenborough wid consider a dirty lame fuc on page 61
sel, "You dinnae see this oan Attenborough's shows. The lion sittin doon on page 126

2 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
elfer744 The likes of him and Attenborough shouldnÂ’t grow auld ????(2020)

General Central

@FaetheRye tweeted
uldny haud a caunle tae David Attenborough. Whit a guy, eh? (2021) twitter link

@Chazzbat tweeted
ic. Ah cudnae hear whit David Attenborough or the scientists wur sayin a(2020)