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The word 'immigrants'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
immigrantsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.41411
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 5
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 immigrants in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
nd here complainin that these immigrants are comin over here and steal on page 22

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@DavidJWood2 tweeted
the way Carol, we’ll welcome immigrants, specially oor English pals ?(2020)

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
he racism directit agin Jrish immigrants weel intae the 20th centurie on page 18
pairts o Europe. The story o immigrants comin here tae scrounge benef on page 112
fae their wish-list o bannit immigrants - eftir aw they ken hou hard on page 115

4 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
probably met illegal Tibetan immigrants. Tibetans wis aa ower the pla
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
stically, the maist important immigrants bi faur wir the Irish an the on page vi

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
And Heilan peoples, immigrants on page 41

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
st o the folk in steerage wur immigrants, so ah imagined whit it would on page 29

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
e influx of Irish and foreign immigrants in the industrial area near G
1 matches

Widmann, Thomas The State o Denmark, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
t it suin stairtit focusin on immigrants insteid. Hooaniver, it wis ni
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@Chazzbat tweeted
erestin. It's ridiculous thit immigrants tae the USA hae nae wey tae b(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
wards 'do gooder' lawyers and immigrants.(2020)

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