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The word 'canal'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
canalOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.6287
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 55.8 22 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 canal in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
ough then, aw right. Doon the canal it wis. First time anyroad. S on page 1

19 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
er slept wi were in the Union Canal no the Hudson river.
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
s fund face doon in the Union Canal, the cause o death wis drooni
lowed the wee fanny along the canal efter closing time, wallop, s
2 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
llapsed during a routine root canal procedure. It turns out the i
ah felt before ma bloody root canal and when it didnae hurt tae b
2 matches

General Central

Matheson, Ann Lallans 84 - Attrition, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, poetry
canal; abune thaim, haar, on page 8

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 58 - The Dumb Jyner, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
a buncha wogs rinnin the Suez Canal! Bluidy rideeculas!" on page 65

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Wee Story Aboot Love, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
e drapped ower a linn intae a canal and sank wi the brave sodger on page 77

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
he built Scotland's feerst canal on page 82

1 matches

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