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The word 'pandemic'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pandemicOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.84123
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 35.6 3 2
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 20.5 8 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 16 12 8
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 56.2 4 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of pandemic in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
fir demsels, an even trowe da pandemic crisis eenoo. A example o da on page 9

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@Julie_Dennison tweeted
h knittin dis ganzie afore da pandemic is by we or will we all be fr (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
elivering this aat a time o a pandemic, it cwid hiv waited a curn ou(2020)

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
s blonde, but add in a global pandemic, a grunny up tae high doh owe
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Uri, Antonia Will virus crisis mean a fresh stairt for Scots produce?, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
ae be the worst effect o this pandemic.
This pandemic is gaun tae mak us a gey lot
2 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
ae help support Scotland post pandemic? Gies a break min (2021) twitter link
erdeen in the middle o global pandemic? Didnae mater fah wi brought (2020) twitter link

@glenlivetloon tweeted
this when we get through the pandemic? But no, let's take key peopl(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"Yae do ken there's a pandemic goin oan?" ah ask her. "Ah th on page 140

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Crawford, Ross Mindin, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
awa up the road. There wis a pandemic oan, efter aw.
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
k huv put us there - wae eer pandemic - tut tut lol (2020) twitter link
ho have worked thru the whole pandemic - they r bound to b exhauste (2020) twitter link
n - worked right through the pandemic m8 (2020) twitter link
eared out of nowhere when the pandemic started and now he is running (2021) twitter link
ts unusual in the middle of a pandemic (2020) twitter link
and 1 other occurrences.

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
the midst ae some happy pill pandemic. Everyboady seems tae be wear
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
front line o the Weir on the Pandemic, Covid-19. on page v

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Grae, Emma Billy's Ghost Dug, (liarsleague.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
it’s the middle o a global pandemic. A press buy.
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General Central

@Cobradile94 tweeted
wiss 'is wisnae cause ae the pandemic. https://t.co/ifO9MiNT98(2020)

@iainnicol tweeted
ental check in the middle o a pandemic?!(2020)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
iety in the midst of a global pandemic, but isn't Natural Law a fact(2020)
ir the abatement an end o the pandemic.(2020)

@OliphantWullie tweeted
end Wee Schuil jist afore the pandemic daein Scots Leid lessons. Tha (2022) twitter link
& fir the last 5/6 year, pre-pandemic, hae been wirkin aroond the A (2022) twitter link

@Chazzbat tweeted
wur kept in the datk durin a pandemic?! Whit an absolute arse-cockl(2020)
advises it, seein as thir's a pandemic on. Huv ye no bin peyin atten(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
g weans is part o fightin the pandemic? The Scottish government is d(2020)

@raiphsays tweeted
y yer electit leader, durin a pandemic, wis important enuf tae be br(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
e the ongoin, deadly Covid 19 pandemic, NAEBODY is gettin access tae(2021)
strugglin' tae cope wae this pandemic? Dis he ken he's making fowk (2021)

South East (Borders)

@officialAliRed tweeted
4/ The coronavirus pandemic has robbed us of the chance o(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
you'd never know there was a pandemic, according to so(2020)
ding Twitter threads during a pandemic isn't maybe the healthiest us(2020)

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
es normal oan accoont o' the pandemic, the stall wus gyely busy an on page 45
rskeip an' culture. Afore the pandemic hit wus gettin sax thoosan vi on page 46
Commonities. The mair at the pandemic hes bein' a hannlin fer hit, on page 47
the Covid pandemic sae soon efter devolution bei on page 60

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