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The word 'passport'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
passportOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5169
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of passport in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
een an application form fur a passport lyin apo da table whin he wis on page 5
in at my brand new first ever passport, an canna believe at dis time on page 50

2 matches

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
eak those chains (look at yer passport if yer wondering what ahm oan (2022) twitter link

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
easons. Jist dinna forget yer passport! Ance ye get tae Mont Salève on page 5
ament buildin athoot showin a passport or ID caird. Onybody interest on page 13

2 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
e use, Bruce, Ah dinnae hae a passport. on page 40

1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
My passport and my papers are in order. on page 20
No God himsel wad ken my passport photie on page 21

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
f wi a British nor a Scottish passport? on page 143

3 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Wee Story Aboot Love, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
"Whaur's yer passport!" he snashed, shawin his shai on page 77

2 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
eger tae try oot ma noo Irish passport cerd!(2020)
ye get intae Kent wae a Irish passport? Am no gaun bit jus wunnerin.(2020)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
dignify the blethers on thon passport wi ony #UlsterScots ! (2015) twitter link