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The word 'origin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
originOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.52417
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of origin in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
tae Aald English. Da ultimate origin o da baith o da forms is da P on page 31
Dis is da origin o da expressions: on page 102

2 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Glims o origin on page 107

2 matches

Nicholson, Hannah Da Wye At I Spaek, (self-published 2021) Shetland - Brae, poetry
At Engleesh is as pure in origin
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
e o the clachans war Tamil bi origin, an they war Hindu, prayin ta
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
icolaesen's darg, an OS Scots origin name gazetteer nae bad. Will (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
ey dates. An it aa traces its origin ti Luther (1483 - 1546) pynt on page 56

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
kers is o ethnic Scots/Celtic origin an no aw Scots speakers is o
is o ethnic Scots/Anglo-Saxon origin. There a lot o guid Scots spe
Scots speakers o ethnic Asian origin. But for aw that, the Cornish
3 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
English. Many words of Latin origin were borrowed into the two la
h (whiles alang wi the Latin) origin.
2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
lanced a first edeetion o The Origin of Species on. Bit she wis fa
1 matches

General Central

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
ner the spellin Scare fur its origin is in Auld Norse skera 'tae c on page 59

1 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
in kenspeckle fowk o Scottish origin in different airts, is hou af on page 10

1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
e the fact that it shares sib origin, forby
erman, or atween thae o Latin origin.”25
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
lites socht tae yaise siclike origin myths or ‘ethnic ideology
1 matches

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
opinioun, national or social origin, gear, birth or ither status.
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
y in the monie wirds o Gaelic origin that aye kenmerk Scots and Sc
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
naem Maislee is o Anglo Saxon origin meanin
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Ross, Derek Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
O the unbeatable. The origin on page 201

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
English and Scots. Here's the origin: Middle English (as a noun de(2020)