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The word 'berwick'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
berwickOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus82614
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 38 15 4
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 2
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 berwick in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
hey'd pit him aff the boat at Berwick. Ah winder ye niver hear tell on page 22

2 matches

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ntae some fancy gaff at North Berwick once she’d had the wean. We
e wis nae fancy gaff in North Berwick, that wis jist pure fantasy.
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
tae an end bi ettlin tae pit Berwick-on-Tweed back on-tae the Scot
ck tae Scotland frae England. Berwick-on-Tweed haes chynged haunds
oleetical anes but, wha kens? Berwick's fitba team haes played in t
hset, it kythed in some o the Berwick shops. Gin the Scots Leid Ass
s Writin Competeetion tae the Berwick schuils afore noo, whit wey n
5 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ad at 5 oclock 2 nite doon at berwick - but the churches r shut lo (2021) twitter link
a goosefat roaster - am from berwick ffs lol - tut tut u sheep sh (2020) twitter link
trip ower the border doon tae berwick n al park ma motor ootside a (2021) twitter link
run doon the coast tae north berwick n a wee stopover at the longn (2021) twitter link
? spent the day doon at north berwick n there wis tourists from awe (2021) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
His airms displayed at Berwick an the Tyne, on page 128

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
an went back ti Berwick fir a place on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
ly kneesey mushy peasey North Berwick breezy (whoa, steady noo!). J on page

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
e the Sooth: Selkirk in 1835, Berwick in 1899 and Roxburgh in 1925.
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
Fabby day oot at North Berwick fir Edin church beach service(2015)

@OliphantWullie tweeted
no far either. Doon towards N.Berwick an East Linton . (2022) twitter link

@billykayscot tweeted
Hawick Balls, Jethart snails, Berwick Cockles, Kirriemuir Gingerbre(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
chts back til whan the Toun o Berwick, wis Scotlands
capture o the Port an Toun o Berwick, at the Port o Leith, Embro,
2 matches

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
e should move the border from Berwick down sooth to Leeds!(2020)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
Berwick on Tagus tae Constantinople on page 10

1 matches

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