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The word 'moffat'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
moffatOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.9238
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 17.1 13 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 48.4 4 2
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 moffat in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Miss Moffat's curds an whey on page 74

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Reid Moffat o Fawkirk wis that roused bi
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
at 24 Cou Wynd, Fawkirk. Reid Moffat, ane o the Bairns frae thon t
cough candy, coulters candy, moffat toffees, sherbet dabs, lucky
2 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
e this wis meant, this is it: Moffat Toffee. Hid tae be. https://t(2020)

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
land Before History, Alistair Moffat, Thames and Hudson, London, 2 on page 110

12 matches

Matheson, Ann Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
the Border Reivers, Alistair Moffat, Birlinn Ltd., Edinburgh, 200 on page 126

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
THE MOFFAT RAM on page 25
THE BLACK BULL INN MOFFAT on page 22

3 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
, whan A wis born, wis ae Mr. Moffat; whae hed twae sons, Wullie a
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
fae Langholm tae Moffat an richt doon tae Gretna. on page 77

1 matches

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