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The word 'abraham'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
abrahamOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus17.2578
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 40.7 7 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 71.9 22 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
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 436.1 24 1

Occurrences of abraham in Corpus

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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
Abraham's Feth on page 9
rmented sowl shargit, 'Fedder Abraham, tak peety apo me. Pit Lazaru on page 125

7 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
rist, e sin o Daavit, e sin o Abraham. on page 7
tae say tae yersels, 'We hiv Abraham for wir fadder,' cause A'll t on page 9
an e wast an will sit doon wi Abraham, wi Isaac an wi Jacob 1 the k on page 16
forgettin tae shew mercy tae Abraham's bairns for aye'. on page 80
a solemn aith tae wir fadder Abraham, he said he wid rescyee hiz f on page 81
Also on pages 84, 85, 104, 105, 108, 111, 114
21 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
an said, 'I am the Lord God o Abraham, thy Faither an the God o Isa
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
udna sweir the Renunciation o Abraham an Isaac. She’d never heard
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
nummerless as the stars like Abraham, on page 136

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Watt, George T. Lallans 82 - Caul Stane, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
hauden the ledder fur Abraham on page 24

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
An Abraham tha gully grips, on page 33

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Christ, tha sinn o Davit an o Abraham: on page 1
thïnkin tae yersels, 'We hae Abraham fer oor faither' an hae daen on page 3
thair place roon tha boord wi Abraham, Isaac an Jacob ïn tha Kïng on page 9
or he promist oor faithers - Abraham an aa hïs childèr - that h on page 71
rt sayin tae yersels, 'We hae Abraham for oor faither', an hae daen on page 74
Also on pages 75, 94, 98, 101, 104
24 matches

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