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The word 'dolphin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dolphinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.174
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 dolphin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Ye ah'll nivver guess whilk dolphin ah shall be bidding for on We(2014)
k alang an nae see Orion Wild Dolphin bi Alanna Butchart at the Aib(2014)
ay wi tasty fishcakes aat The Dolphin Cafe Peterhead ging try, rich(2017)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
erdeenQuine Fars at fae? Blue Dolphin?(2019)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
cause it said on the tin it's dolphin friendly. on page 86

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
3. Dolphin-watch near Teagarden on page 16

2 matches

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