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The word 'agen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
agenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7126
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
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
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 62.8 2 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of agen in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Ahm lost a bloomeen sock agen on page 105

2 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
Bit agen, if we oese da wird ‘dialec
s o non-standard English. Bit agen, I doot at maest fock wid say
2 matches

Mid Northern A

Wilson, Katie Becus a hae a sister a hae a friend, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
wid hiv tae mak the hooses ah agen; wiz just hassle. Mam use tae
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
eh seyt agen, jimmy on page 62

1 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
Cannae wait tae go see hings agen!(2020)
e Aw a cannae wait tae dae it agen!(2020)
wire in, en go strate bak up agen! “Awa an get tae!” He aw sh(2020)
Time tae close a skools agen a hink...(2020)

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Reynolds, Charlie Krisamas time is draa’in near, (Ullans Speakers Association 2011) Ulster - Coleraine, prose
t’s that time o’ tha year agen.
1 matches

Reynolds, Charlie Tha demise o oor ain tongue, (North Antrim Speak 2010) Ulster - Coleraine, blog
age an a brev wheen o them ir agen it. But it cannae gae on lake
1 matches

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