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The word 'surge'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
surgeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.71512
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
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 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.7 3 2
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 surge in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
the surge waashes awaey the dippers tra on page 17

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ariddy." Morrice felt a fresh surge o annoyance risin inside him on page 10

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
o the operation. Jist ae wee surge o pouer: an inflood o data fr
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
nit wis that the Tories had a surge in Scotland - aff the back o on page 8

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ien, cud pick up the telltale surge o waarmth in the brain. How c
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
A surge ay dopamine races through me,
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e ah know whit ah’m dain ah surge taewards him, ‘That’s ma
1 matches

Durie, Nick The Best o the Baith o Thaim, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
it. Atweel, A’m expectin a surge. And, ken this, A walcome it.
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
travail.' Isabel felt a great surge o heat rin throu her brou an on page 43
o the return o popery, and a surge in the persecution o Covenant on page 58

2 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
implosion o Labour, the Green surge an the emergence Ruth Davidso
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
, the turnoot on the day, the surge i pairty memmership (tak tent
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
a sudden dramatic surge and spike on page 8

1 matches

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
simmer-nicht-lang surge tae America on page 11

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Here’s the Weather, (Scottish Poetry Library 2017) Central, poetry
a sudden dramatic surge and spike
1 matches

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