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The word 'oreeginal'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
oreeginalOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus93012
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 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 26.3 20 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of oreeginal in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
The oreeginal story in the papers telt hou
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ter an monie ither shows. The oreeginal picter wis pentit bi Sally J
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
- tae pit oot oreeginal screivit Scots work o sindrie
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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
This in turn wis based on the oreeginal 'Claim of Right' fae 1689 whi on page 43

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Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
assic film, Barbarella - the oreeginal, no the re-make whaur the evi
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
an noo thair oreeginal spells hae bin replaced on page 26

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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
or, in ither words, whit oor oreeginal micht be. This is affen grund on page 39
stament haed been inrowed the oreeginal warrants wis pit awa amang th on page 40
a guid source for findin the oreeginal papers an for trackin doun th on page 52

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
t aw gaits for years whit his oreeginal wis, an he wis claimed bi a n on page 38

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Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
naething byordnar, the ither, oreeginal. Whan we skreive in oor awn l on page 91

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
y them starns. Starn haes its oreeginal in the auld Indo-European wor
on it. The word Yird haes its oreeginal in the auld Germanic *erþō.
n, a tradeetion that haed its oreeginal oot o China. In the Roman imp
le an licht. Still an on, the oreeginal eemage gars us chitter an sha
Gird. The word comet haes its oreeginal in the auld Greek word meanin
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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ten ontae the shouthers o the oreeginal Inglish bodies. Aw that depen
n straucht fae the leid o the oreeginal, for thon coudna be duin but
it a rip-aff o the Inglish “oreeginal”. Naither o thae twa argiem
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Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
t the seegnal likely haed its oreeginal aboot a starn cryed 2MASS 192
ou antrin braidsheets – the oreeginal o oor modren newspapers. Sae
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Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
yaised tae the heichts o the oreeginal text. Owersettin aye haes had
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Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
PDF document ye’ll find the oreeginal text oxtert wi backgrund an l
– ilka ane wheecht fae its oreeginal setting – wis presst in tae
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South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
e sicht, div ee no think? The oreeginal auld schuil
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South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
o the toon. An here's a 1913 oreeginal Punch ad Ah hae framed an oan(2020)
sscot Mind an get some modren oreeginal Scots by ye an aa!(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
aicent claim tae come fae the oreeginal Ulster-Scots settlement. Yin
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