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The word 'manner'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mannerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.22016
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 10.2 4 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 21.7 4 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 94.2 3 3
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of manner in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
'speak English in an affected manner' in StE: Nah, whin d'ir in a on page 107

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
round in an "unsound of mind" manner.(2017)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
in a healer. Her usual bubbly manner hud been replaced wae pin-poi on page 31
d in a rather inconsequential manner, it does, nonetheless, gee me on page 130

2 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
miling at him in an appealing manner. He wis cute, richt enough, m
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nd theres hatred there in his manner too (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
dub, burn runnels an’ aw’ manner o’ slaisterin’ grund for
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
’ he sais, grinnin. ‘In a manner ay speakin, aye, he is, away
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ere oan the road, batterin aw manner ay worktaps, integrated oven
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Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
c states, makin shapes tae aw manner ay electronic music spannin m
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Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
™s been rabbitin oan aboot aw manner ay bloody contradictory, ill-
1 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
An Jessie's couthie manner keeps me richt, on page 8

1 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
hin coos in an 'inappropriate manner'. He couldnae answer the accu(2021)

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
tter went oan in an ill-aboot manner, "hei'll dae nowt Ah ask! Het on page 71

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
frae the Finnish o Eeva-Liisa Manner) on page 8

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Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
some severity: "It's wile bad manner." on page 68

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Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
laining non-stop in a peevish manner to the extent that it would m on page 33

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Gillen, Charles Fifty Nine, (Ullans Press 2005) Ulster, poetry
Somethin in mae sisters manner,
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East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
. There was an urgency in his manner, an it was quare an certain h on page 40

1 matches

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
in a drunken abusive fatherly manner.(2017)