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The word 'amazon'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
amazonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.12316
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 139.1 3 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of amazon in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
ct. 'Am lippenan a parcel fae Amazon'....'Weel, I didn't lippen hi(2020)

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
son Goin ta buy a new wan fae amazon (2018) twitter link

@tattooedselkie tweeted
ks frae Waterstones raedir as Amazon, an even tryin tae use indies(2021)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Ah bocht these lug plugs fae Amazon - hiv a keek aat the michty (2018)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@peer_audrey Comin fae Amazon neist wik. Hopefully(2020)

Aberdeen

Abel, Charlie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
ncle takin a steamship up the Amazon river on horseback tae Lake T on page 25

1 matches

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
e his sword. Instantly aw the Amazon warriors had their cauld blad on page 39
n tae their ship wi hunners o Amazon warriors chasin efter them. M on page 41

3 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
scammers claiming to be from amazon that are phoning people just (2020) twitter link

West Central

Lochhead, Liz Ashet, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
e an that arrived the day fae Amazon
1 matches

@annieones tweeted
?????????? yer baith daein an amazon joab. Thanks hen xxx (2021) twitter link

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
tae turn it intae a miniature Amazon. on page 39
holdin oot the remains o the Amazon and poor Snappy and pointin a on page 40

4 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
ked.. Bungy jumping intae the Amazon river Brian.. ?? ... She like (2023) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
h dinnae approve o buying fae Amazon so ah'll hae tae wait tae ah'(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
lls, bocht umpteen things aff Amazon, switched aff Sky News tae no on page 77

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
First review on Amazon of my new illustrated book of(2020)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
@barriegadgey Jest fae Amazon: Ulster Books pit them oot. T (2016) twitter link