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Use in varieties of Scots

northumbrian Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 0.5 4.5 0 63.9 10.3 0
Number of occurrences161 3 0 11 1 0
Number of authors5 1 2 1 1

Occurrences of northumbrian in Corpus

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Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
Auld Inglis feoht or, in Auld Northumbrian feht, gies us Modren Scots fe
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Spikk o the Nor East Leid, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Doric, poetry
Lothian’s Northumbrian dialect, entered the touns o
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ire Had a hunch langsyne that Northumbrian leid retains mair similaritie (2020) twitter link
e hiv Gaelic, Norse, Flemish, Northumbrian, Scots influences. Bairns A t (2020) twitter link

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
settled dem in Mercia) an da Northumbrian Aald English (spokken bi da d on page 14
ae be Norn. At da sam time da Northumbrian Aald English wid come tae be on page 15
, bit you can still fin it in Northumbrian English. on page 24
baith wyes. Da descendants o Northumbrian Aald English, hoosumivver, al on page 45
ae Aald English blæc/blacc- (Northumbrian), meanin 'black, on page 102

9 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
d baith wyes. Da decendants o Northumbrian Aald English, hoosumivver, al

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
, but you can still fin it in Northumbrian English.

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
uy @Historic_Ally Geordie (or Northumbrian) disnae hae a muckle leit o s(2020) search twitter