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The word 'manure'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
manureOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.276
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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 manure in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
he twitchan body in a plastic manure seck. on page 57

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
re Twa bags o the finest farm manure Will arrive the morn (if nae on page 15

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
MANURE
r better if your husband said manure. Do you think he will be will
2 matches

@glenlivetloon tweeted
iament to start debunking the manure we hear from all the rural To(2020)

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
em, a big broon bowfin bing o manure that went aw the wey up tae t on page 23

1 matches

West Central

Alston, Connor THE BLACK-EYED CHILDREN OF SCOTLAND, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
the hoose. It smelt like coo manure ‘n’ driet blood fillin Ji
1 matches

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