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The word 'telegraph'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
telegraphOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.798
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of telegraph in Corpus

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Shetland

Hall, Nat nobody remembers the birdman - Hairst, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Shetland, poetry
Telegraph codes in on page 82

1 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
get sent for a message wi the telegraph-" "She maan pou the train her on page 39

1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@Telegraph the most cringeworthy sports (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
doot that amang Daily Mail an Telegraph readers the opinions o Farage on page 114
e. Nou, the Daily Mail an the Telegraph leader-writers micht be happy on page 138

2 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
stical' advert in the Belfast Telegraph for an 'Eeksi-Peeksie Skame H on page 56

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
als an soonds in the air. The telegraph existit, in coorse, but lippe
1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
an @yona1959 @TelegraphWorld @Telegraph And Liz Truss... no got the m (2022) twitter link

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
mbled lik semi-quavers on the telegraph lines, thair mantles glossy w on page 59

1 matches

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