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The word 'noah'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
noahOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.42813
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
SHD - Shetland 40.7 7 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
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) 72.7 4 1

Occurrences of noah in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Noah, or The Ferawey on page 25

3 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
Noah an da Doontöm on page 7

7 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
furrent gearbox eit a theink "Noah," musta crecaitet, wid offin on page 10

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
Arpachshad, sin o Shem, sin o Noah, sin o Lamech, sin o Methusel on page 85
t as things were i the days o Noah, sae will they be i the days on page 109

3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ltin ajee wi global warmin, a Noah's Ark agin tsunamis gin they
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@Davyshanks Noah furloughed noo(2020)

@Franwella tweeted
e tae go tae shop.....I wisna Noah's wife ye cane, i dinna hae a(2011)

(South) East Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
ey'd last been used tae build Noah's Ark an then been left oot i on page 7

1 matches

West Central

Ellet, Tom Lallans 104 - Smirr, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
a moment o guidwill, promised Noah that he wad niwer dae that ag on page 19

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
so like Noah's Ark thi came across, on page 43

1 matches

General Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Flittin In, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
r furst yaised is ballast fir Noah’s Ark an a biler, hemmed wi
1 matches

Robson, Frances Lallans 74 - The Tartanic, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Awa anbile yer heid! says Noah.
Noah wis fair chuffed.
Noah packed his racin doos.
3 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Shem wus tha sinn o Noah. on page 75
lake the' wur ïn tha days o Noah. For fowk wus eatin, drinkin on page 99

4 matches

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