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The word 'phenomenon'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
phenomenonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.22014
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 3
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 5
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of phenomenon 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.

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
me hid was Heather Blether, a phenomenon that's spokken aboot in Orkne on page 14

1 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
his wisdom. It's a modern-day phenomenon on page 23

1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
devotit tae a once shatterin phenomenon grew less an less.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
On ane Phenomenon on page 13

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
laif, north/nairth, roar/rair phenomenon that affecks a gey wheen wird
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
ntra airts is a international phenomenon, houever, an it's aften as no
1 matches

Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
first time ah heard aboot the phenomenon cawed the "Scottish Cringe".
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
t. The richt word fur it is a phenomenon. It's a phenomenon.' on page 173

4 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
wis a phenomena, ok a flawed phenomenon but great! Billy McNeill once
1 matches

Glasgow

@johnstone_shane tweeted
his becam gey unpopular eh? A phenomenon A caa the Kerouac ee roll - (2018) twitter link

General Central

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
s o snaw that wes fawin.....a phenomenon gruppit weel in the words o a on page 6

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
much attention to the natural phenomenon of language in Scotland as di
1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 71 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ike vyce lats licht anent the phenomenon cried lag, follaed bi a wifie
t the weys o this warld. This phenomenon cried lag is whit gars ither
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
this ‘covert Scotticism’ phenomenon, alang wi vocabulary sic as t
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
‘smashin’ exemple o this phenomenon; e.g. Drumnadrochit, which me
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
tae find oot exactly why this phenomenon occurs within the central bel (2021) twitter link

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