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The word 'slave-ship'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
slave-shipOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.861
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
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 slave-ship in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ell me, there's the spars o a slave-ship that cam up fyles fan the san
e that Jed kens far aboot yon slave-ship sits in the watter."
n an up tae the beach far the slave-ship lay, Jed began tae cam oot wi
arna far frae the wrack o the slave-ship noo. He kent fine far it wis,
We're jist aboot there. This slave-ship cairriet aff hunners o toun b
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