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The word 'precentor'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
precentorOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4144
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 71.1 6 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central
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 precentor in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
, fur her faither Matthew wis precentor at the wee United Free kirk,
er faither Matthew wis a kirk precentor, fur the Divil wid niver daur
fur her faither, Matthew, wis precentor, an the fowk culdna sing a no
voice wis nae eese ava fur a precentor. Matthew Bruce's voice fulled
k great delicht in tellin the precentor.
6 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 79 - The Bonnie Lintie, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
t me tell ye, is fut they caa precentor-led. Ere's nae organ an nae k on page 24
, nae lang ago, daes es young precentor billie nae lat it be kent tha on page 25
r that, for aa that th'eeswal precentor wasna there, there was a stra on page 26
kipple seen scoutit awa. The precentor's wife an her sister bade a f on page 27

6 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
o the auld toun o Dundee. The precentor o the Steeple Kirk, the manni on page 109

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
Then a laich hummin frae the precentor raise intae joyous sang as a on page 35

1 matches

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