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The word 'calvin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
calvinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4118
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
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 calvin 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.

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
d - they widna ken iv it wis Calvin Klein or clubbie." on page 35

1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
'Fan chapman billies wi Calvin's Institutes in their oxters on page 57

2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
nked up the deafenin tunes ae Calvin Harris. Some folk huv broat t on page 167

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
rian hud loads of respect for calvin n johnny - but good luck to (2020) twitter link
tar @TranentJRs_FC @_shandy09 calvin was a top man tae guys - sum (2020) twitter link
tJRs_FC aye exactly - 2 lose calvin n johnny has fecked it fir me (2020) twitter link

West Central

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
and the vauntie steeple o Calvin's muckle kirk? on page 144

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
or be a swine like Calvin Klein on page 65

1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Threids Calvin's creed an gowd haes tint its on page 7

1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
n fields... Naakid! Prototype Calvin Whitshisname scarecrow? ??. ?(2020)

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