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The word 'divide'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
divideOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.22415
ORK - Orkney
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
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.9 5 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 18.4 14 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
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 divide in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
e') spleet intae a nort/sooth divide fae da airly 13t on page 59

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
divide wis; mak wis kinda wary on page 92

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ooth-moothers. The equatorial divide nae langer hid ony meanin, fu
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
"Yase Macavellian concept - divide and conquer. on page 32

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
A bit like steyin here. Folk divide theirsells in a wee place. If on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
tentionally provoked a bigger divide by statin: "Dinnae mind her, on page 31
atcher managed tae bridge the divide between Leith and Gorgie. It on page 88

2 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Whaur A'll divide an multiply
1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Divide an rule, there is nae frienly on page 31

1 matches

McCabe, Mary Lallans 73 - Tap Table, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
aye grunchin ower the Cypriot divide. on page 117

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ak. It’s no a North/Central divide aither – Gamrie in Buchan a
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
th sides o the constitutional divide. Whit group wull they, can th
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Great Divide, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ivin on tae a new fundamental divide.
e rederendum, the fundamental divide is atween the pairties o the
o the aulder Labour vs. Tory divide, it seems the fowk o Scotland
vs. Tory wis the fundamental divide i Scots politics. Noo that a
cots politics. Noo that a new divide is openin up, the Labour jaik
8 matches

Ewen, Allan Murphy’s Law, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
y wi an unalike manifesto wad divide the Perty north an sooth o th
1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
portScot This is aye goin tae divide folk, but if whit we see on t (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Drosten, John Lallans 67 - Fower Poems bi John Drosten, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
An ayont thon great divide, whaur on page 135

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
d bad, a fausely biggit class divide tae ding it doon. Scots is fi (2020) twitter link

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