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The word 'shroud'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shroudOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.41110
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 shroud in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
He pits on a clean shroud an sets aff for the pub on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
the sleeves o yer fite satin shroud are baith yer birthday waatch on page 23

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
tbye wis like linen, fite's a shroud. The wee mantle clock gaed ri
1 matches

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
hey dinnae sew pockets on yir shroud Moira ????(2020)

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
his shooder an chist, as the shroud ay flesh an skin that is his
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
y veins oan display under the shroud ay tired auld flesh.
1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Stiff-happit in a shroud o frost on page 80

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
(Bothwell pu's back the shroud ti reveal Darnley's face.) on page 35

1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
we’d been beat, the burial-shroud o haar that kivvert Edinburgh
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
haes cuist a fauch lyke shroud.
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
But as nicht's dark shroud faa's faster, an the sweet no on page 20

1 matches

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