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The word 'lerwick'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lerwickOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.91911
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 87.2 15 8
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 1
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 lerwick in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
serves. Wur professionals in Lerwick and Kirkwall could teach thei
1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
ver spaek! Aal nivver trust a Lerwick chippy again efter a Skate su(2020)

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
iss Doris Jenkins, Viewforth, Lerwick. I nivver tocht I wid see da on page 13

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
Capital: Lerwick on page 7
esses, laek Mary, Mr Johnson, Lerwick, Shetland, Sandiloch, Unst. on page 47

2 matches

Williamson, Christie Da windirs o technology, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Shetland - Yell, poetry
I left Lerwick harbour
1 matches

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
I'm lived at Westerloch in Lerwick for most o my life and as I p

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
'Is that Lerwick 8987?'
1 matches

@tattooedselkie tweeted
an ower night ferry back tae Lerwick. Fokk used tae think I wis af(2021)

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
trapped upon da pavement up a Lerwick lane ?? https://t.co/O5Z58ElL(2016)
I heard da orca are now in #Lerwick, off Tescos :) They've been m(2016)
unge? Posers? Alloftheabove? #lerwick(2013)
Casino gettin tae ken da Lerwick take-aways. https://t.co/wAow(2017)

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
ltasound too) and mithers fae Lerwick but sho grew up on Fetlar. Sp (2020) twitter link
Its Lerwick Up Helly Aa danight whar Shet (2019) twitter link
Its #Lerwick ?@UpHellyAa? daday. Heres da (2020) twitter link
Its #Lerwick @UpHellyAa daday!!! #ThreeChe (2020) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
fae Lerwick tae Perth, fae Kirkcaldy tae on page 8

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Here’s the Weather, (Scottish Poetry Library 2017) Central, poetry
fae Lerwick tae Perth, fae Kirkcaldy tae
1 matches

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