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The word 'martyr'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
martyrOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.7158
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 8 6 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.7 3 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 martyr in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Folk called her Martyr of St Paul's, Civilian nun, on page 55

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
o saw this cuid but mak him a martyr an whit micht happen eftir yo on page 85
ution o the famous Protestant martyr George Wishart for heresy, th on page 118

2 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
urn like Hamilton. Scotland's martyr. on page 112

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
- JOHN BROUN O PRIESTHILL - MARTYR on page 33

2 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
g. Ah tellt him no tae make a martyr o himsel if he's ever no feel on page 38

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
and Peden. Richard Cameron, a martyr o the early Presbyterian Chur
1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
reachers an the last official martyr tae the Cause.

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
tually he wud become the last martyr tae the Cause so things didna

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
er 1686. He’s conseedered a martyr tae the Covenantin Cause, 33

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
David is named as a martyr tae the Covenantin cause an t

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
James Kirko, Martyr, shot in the Sands, is it? on page 28

3 matches

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