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The word 'abroad'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
abroadOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.83522
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 19.6 6 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 2
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 78.6 6 1
LAL - General Central 10.6 8 7
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) 2369.7 1 1
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of abroad in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
An Innocent Abroad on page 10

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
An see aboot bookin a holiday abroad" on page 15

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ne in oor office at hisna bin abroad." Joyce leukit fair disgustit on page 38

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
on cairry-on last time wi gid abroad...ye said ye'd nivver dee't a on page 6
wint te see anither holiday, abroad or it hame, ye' ll jist drap on page 17

2 matches

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
a mortgaged hoose an holidays abroad. on page 29

1 matches

Uri, Antonia Will virus crisis mean a fresh stairt for Scots produce?, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
items in ower the borders fae abroad an the panic buyers hiv aarea
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
have the confidence tae play abroad? ItÂ’s a major flaw in the Sc (2020) twitter link

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 2), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
o Wallace’s fower-year trip abroad should be sae drumlie. But fe
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
, designer clothes, a holiday abroad yince a year, and a fuckin cr on page 24

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
h'd really like tae dae is go abroad an work wi dolphins. Either t on page 141
ethin jist cause her da works abroad eight months oot the year tae on page 169

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
aye gettin sung baith here an abroad. It's weel athin leevin memor on page 70
r American pals an ithers fae abroad (wha are international, no fo on page 96

2 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
biz, news o’ the murder wis abroad an’ aw’budy were blaminâ€
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
fur an aw expenses paid trip abroad. In search ae findin a new fa
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
s the wird that maks us fecht abroad on page 130

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
tion frae ony sodgers o Satan abroad in the kintraeside. He kent w on page 35
ide for. . . Ye are weel kent abroad as a godly man o guid charact on page 41
el sae weel, baith at hame an abroad, that nane cuid tell his inne on page 42
he caum ... Satan's spies are abroad an takin notes, sae frae nou on page 44
re micht be terrible troubles abroad in the land, but for nou, Ada on page 48
Also on pages 58
6 matches

General Central

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
nnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad on page 6
in programmes aboot the Scots abroad for the BBC. Efter a while I on page 8

2 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
Up, up my heart! And walk abroad, fling cark and care aside, on page 69

1 matches

Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
it hill. He’ll no’ be oot abroad again in a hurry. Nae doot th
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
fined, tortured, jailed, sent abroad as a slave, or even shot on t

Fyall, Aitken Lallans 74 - Rabbie’s Retrospeck, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Noo, ivery chiel maun go abroad,
1 matches

@pmcm1355 tweeted
intae the UK pension bit live abroad noo get the UK pension peyed (2022) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
ome Scots change their accent abroad, an ithers stey the same? #st (2019) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Nuhin is Certain, Except, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
c (dare A say stupit?) tae go abroad fir ower a month waeoot packi
1 matches

South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)

BardOfMilebush To A Merican Food, (Reddit 2017) Ulster, poetry
ood (or on being an Ulsterman abroad)
1 matches

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