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The word 'missionary'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
missionaryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.275
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 missionary in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
sight o the tradesman-turned-missionary, on page 17

1 matches

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
Day aff after a few days missionary work in Aberdeen. Booked a fa(2020)
i ho, it's aff tae work I go. Missionary work tae finish aff for the W(2020)

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
tie o the Virgin Mary fae the Missionary Society and say ah'm prayin h on page 45

1 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
wi its ruits in anither Scots missionary effort, this time in the Nort on page 11

2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
n illustration of a Christian missionary preaching to tribespeople
1 matches

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