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The word 'burke'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
burkeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4115
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 185.5 4 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 burke in Corpus

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North East Central

Heather, Alistair The Body Snatchers, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
s an greivin freends. William Burke an William Hare cam tae the r
Burke wis fund guilty an pit tae de
But an ben wi Burke an Hare.
Burke’s the butcher, Hare’s the
4 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ER THE WARLD fowk hae heard o Burke an Hare, the Edinburgh lads t on page 108
Edinburgh, whaur the trial o Burke an Hare had increased securit on page 109

2 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
but twa war Burke an Hare - on page 49

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
#Strike (Tom Burke) forgot tae limp when he wis (2020)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
BURKE AND HARE on page 41

3 matches

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