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The word 'dunfermline'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dunfermlineOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.22010
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 25.6 10 6
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 4
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 dunfermline 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.

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
I rether be seein Dunfermline or some ithir side on page 93

1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - Joco Geordie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
ken that George wis howdied i Dunfermline, gaed til univairsity in Embr on page 10

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 90 - Serendipity, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
nicht near the bus staunce in Dunfermline. Thai wir the days whan haurd on page 26

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
The king rides from Dunfermline town Upon a lusty steed: on page 3
Laughingly to Dunfermline town, Tells Tam his poetry on page 5

2 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
llaestane Perk is kind o like Dunfermline Glen anely a tad bigger. Wolv
1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
z Lochead walk intae a pub in Dunfermline
1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
“Is that no Dunfermline wark?” Teenie Finlay shuck
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
it. I’ve been this way since Dunfermline twinned with Seoul ??(2020)
K @BatesMoira You get them in Dunfermline too, but I dinnae go on about(2020)
@tonkerthomas Nae bad for Dunfermline ??(2020)

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
three mile hame tae Dunfermline. on page 18

1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
arent's leid, fae Toonhill by Dunfermline, an in east Fife at Buckhaven on page 35

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 67 - In Search o Robert Henrysoun, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
I taen a walk around Dunfermline toun, on page 123

3 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
"Is that no Dunfermline wark...?" speirt ane. on page 67

1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
Scots leid aw oer the shop in Dunfermline. Gies a wee visit wan day. If (2022) twitter link
favourite Scotland strip. Oor Dunfermline Sunday league team, Kindon, h (2022) twitter link
no Broomhaugh? Blairhall near Dunfermline is shairly Blairhaugh?? (2022) twitter link

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