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The word 'proverbs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
proverbsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5168
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.3 6 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
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 proverbs in Corpus

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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
Proverbs 31 : 10 - 29 on page 49

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ie's da hid said, quotin frae Proverbs, fur he hid taen it as a pers
reth the rod, hateth the son. Proverbs, twintythree,' cam the repon.
2 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
or mony a mair. Syne an on, proverbs the likes o "Coals tae Newcas
richt saw is fand in Hislops Proverbs o Scotland: "Mony a little ma
s, as weel as mair than 4,000 proverbs, tho A hae mony mair texts si
try, sangs, nursery rhymes an proverbs in Scots).
ots novels, nursery rhymes an proverbs quoted (as weel as aa the pro
6 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
ots vairsiouns o auld Chinese proverbs bi anither o oor raiglar skre on page 9

1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 73 - Proverbs o Hell, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Proverbs o Hell on page 78

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 56 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
bi takkin a swatch o Hislop's Proverbs of Scotland. on page 15

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ean. Douglas Kynoch’s Doric Proverbs and Sayings haes a wheen saws
cots – as fornent Doric – proverbs, ye’ll likely finnd at the
say’s A Collection of Scots Proverbs (first prentit in 1750) we fi
3 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
site. Fir example, oor #Scots proverbs hae audio: https://t.co/lvaAg (2020) twitter link

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