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The word 'orcadians'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
orcadiansOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.585
ORK - Orkney 69.6 7 4
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 orcadians in Corpus

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Orkney

Miller, Alison Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
Orcadians don't aal spaek the same ithe on page 8

1 matches

Leonard, Ingrid Northwords Now 43 - Ingrid Leonard, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Orkney, poetry
foor below is spread wi owld Orcadians, on page 18

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Haggis tasting notes, and whisky pairings, (Brisk Northerly 2019) Orkney, blog
Generations o Orcadians hiv been browt up on Donaldso
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
n Scots’ idyims an vools in Orcadians’ cheneril spaech, een ithoo
gin abdee daes hid. Thir brod Orcadians wha had sterklee tae the lang
ndirs teu hoo most contemprir Orcadians akchilee spaek.
m foond in novils rot bi both Orcadians an viseetirs, is tae rait dai
4 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
me beliefs of the prehistoric Orcadians and the tomb builders'. He co on page 110

1 matches

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