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The word 'marine'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
marineOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51510
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 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 31.5 3 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 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 marine in Corpus

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Shetland

Cumming, John Da Whillie, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, prose
; spak tae da costgaird on da marine band an tellt dem we wid be i
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
It's killin marine life, Oor aifter oor, on page 35

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
em stuid Meikleburgh's muckle Marine Research Laboratory –– fu
heid bummerie: ile magnates, marine scientists, accoontant moguls
2 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
They'd jist got ti the tap o Marine Street that led doon ti the q on page 38
it's jist a doolally wifie in Marine Street. Mrs Cadwallader. Her on page 41
aan job that nicht. Nummer 11 Marine Street wis a pile o rubble. on page 45

3 matches

General Northern

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
sat doon and stared at the tv Marine Boy was on but ah wisna watch
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ad as some steroid freak ae a Marine. on page 129

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Usually owernicht in the Marine. on page 123

1 matches

General Central

Eagle, Andy Lallans 63 - Stravaigin The Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
rticles adae wi the oceans an marine life an aquarium resoorces wi
aks tae fend, feed an wirk wi marine life an hae a tryst wi the di
2 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
almersRM Neat packing. Once a Marine, always a Marine. Is that 3 p(2017)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
bi marine archaeologists on page 42

1 matches

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