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The word 'prior'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
priorOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.9225
ORK - Orkney
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 24 18 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of prior in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ld thegither wi masking tape. Prior tae that yin there had been a
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
Prior tae us getting oor first tell
1 matches

Edinburgh

Sneddon, Duncan Lallans 83 - Biggin Brigs – Nummer 3: Cornish, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
he bracketit phrase 'assuming prior ideological clarification'. T on page 109

1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
iend. It wis at the time jist prior tae his leavin’ Celtic, whe
1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
Prior Tammas pyntit oot a bench agi on page 12
fixit his yin guid ee oan the Prior. 'Verra weill, Ah'll nae be b on page 13
Dinna lippen tae the Prior's Chronicles, laddie. Suithfa on page 14

17 matches

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
3. Parents hes a prior richt tae wale the kind o lea
1 matches

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