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The word 'vows'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
vowsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.175
ORK - Orkney
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 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of vows in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Cabrach Days, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
Fa will mak their vows in the Cabrach Kirk
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
’d like tae renew oor wedding vows - ah got aa excited kis ah t(2018)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ther, jyne haunds, an say yer vows tae ane anither."
ter aw, if MSPs can gie thair vows in the Scottish pairlament in
ic no gie the maist important vows o thair lives in thair ain la
3 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
Or because we listen tae the vows made by parcels o’ rogues w
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
An A wull pay ma vows in fu Afore men that thee fea on page 66

1 matches

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