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The word 'ourselves'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ourselvesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3107
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
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 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 ourselves in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ith Casino. Da whole beach to ourselves and two shalders https://t.co(2019)
b quiz. Rather impressed with ourselves.(2013)

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
Him, an ourselves, an id. on page 116

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
n an ah had a cosy day in tae ourselves. She cam back wi aa these bub(2019)

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
n, as keen as we are tae wash ourselves in this alter ego ae the usua
at time. We played catch, hud ourselves a nice picnic, took a few mem
2 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
me clean n make it easier fur ourselves, we sit silently n wait fur t on page 54
We look among ourselves n McGiver laughs tae the two on page 59

2 matches

General Central

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
is gettin better. Just gettin ourselves ready to go oot fir a wee swa (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
evir did, we're aye leein tae ourselves, creatin tales and legends me on page 45

1 matches

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