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The word 'arctic'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
arcticOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.52110
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 52.3 9 4
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 74.3 7 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of arctic 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

@peediepuss tweeted
telt yin story aal across the Arctic Tae folk that get vagrant Ivo (2020) twitter link

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
We set dem sheeksin owre Arctic distances on page 26

1 matches

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
da nim o Skarvald went tae da Arctic in search o an ancient ring,
s, an aff dey set sail fir da Arctic.
Da closser dey sailed tae da Arctic, da warse da draems becam. A
r sweeped ower da deck lik an Arctic hurricane.
ce doon on da icy shores o da Arctic. A moorie wis ragin owerhead,
5 matches

Sinclair, James Murmansk, (Scottish Poetry Library 2019) Shetland, poetry
st frichtnin, he said, wis da Arctic convoys.
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
to whimbrel, dunlin, goldies, arctic skuas...(2020)
s hi, we use da name for both Arctic and common terns(2016)

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
in the freezin watters o the Arctic Sea.
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
e monday night on a typically arctic cowdie night - brr brr lol (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
fleets o ships headin tae the Arctic Circle ivvery year tae hunt t on page 36
ru the lang dark months o the Arctic winter. Anither wey O passin on page 37
n first ivver journey tae the Arctic an he wis hacin a hard enough on page 38
Chieftain that sailit tae the Arctic in the spring o 1884. Like ma on page 40
in an open whale boat in the Arctic Circle. on page 42

7 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
on any day as opposed tae the arctic fox. That's wit we huv in sto on page 50

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
towart the Arctic ennin up on page 10

1 matches

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