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The word 'sarah'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sarahOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.84116
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
SHD - Shetland 98.8 17 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 14.7 11 6
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 sarah in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
And Emma and Sarah Jane on page 17

1 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
m tegether. Vera commissioned Sarah Jane Gibbon tae set a poem o on page 34

2 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
a cruel row whin shü fan oot Sarah wis pregnant at sixteen. on page 22
n whin Janet cam fae her wark Sarah wis gane. Neddir da police no on page 23
ity Rollers on da box dey gie Sarah fur her therteenth birthday w on page 24
n shü spilt ege yolk on him. Sarah grett ower dirtyin her boanni on page 25

16 matches

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
peerie mootie!! ?? Thank you, Sarah!(2020)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Ye ken foo local quine Sarah gotten a free Cornish pastie (2018)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
wis fine, Ah'd tak mi Auntie Sarah doon ti the prom. She bade in on page 74
open-air meetins , an Auntie Sarah said: 'C'mon we'll ging in ab on page 75

2 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
will be performin 'Meat’ bi Sarah Colvin on the Fringe this yea
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Sarah that's in primary four. The b on page 169

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Precious Sarah sleeps in her native earth, on page 17

1 matches

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
Sarah on page 76

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
™ he sais tae his girlfriend, Sarah who’s shakin her heid alang
1 matches

Ayrshire

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Precious Sarah sleeps in her native yirth,
1 matches

General Central

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
Sarah on page 43
ot the windae an says 'Here's Sarah Wylie, Ah think she's comin i on page 46
Sarah on page 47

5 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth In defence o SNHS, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
Yet Sarah Smith, the BBC Scotland edito
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
sorry (I do remember your and Sarah's Emilies an a the ither o oo(2020)

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
@raiphsays Ah no. Sarah Smith should apolagise then r(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
Is Maggie wan o Sarah Jackson's dochters exacting h(2020)
our that Gary wis gonnae kill Sarah. Ah think wur aboot there noo(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
James Robertson reads 'Sarah, Fed Up' by Janet Paisley htt (2021) twitter link

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
ll the boys to the yard. Thon Sarah Palin knows nathin about publ(2016)